“The most satisfying travel is attentive, as if we were in love.” —Pico Iyer, author of The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
I’ve had the privilege of traveling with my husband, Hoyt Edge, around the United States of America, and, as of August 2018, to more than twenty other countries on this glorious planet; some we’ve visited twice.
Ever since our first trip—Greece 2001—I’ve kept a journal of each adventure (and misadventure) and written travel blogs and emails—maybe some of you have read them.
I publish new travel posts on this website.
On another site called Blogspot, you can find my blog with photos about our travels to Turkey and Peru.
The long trip of 2009
The longest we’ve stayed in one country was two months in Bali, Indonesia, where my husband did field work in meditation, and I discovered a store with books in English left by other travelers. My favorite one was James Sullivan’s memoir Over the Moat: Love among the ruins of imperial Vietnam, about courting a Vietnamese woman despite cultural roadblocks. I finished reading it on our flight from Bali to Hanoi with a feeling of closeness to Vietnam, eager to see everything the book had made so real.
That stay in Bali was part of our most ambitious journey: in about five months, we visited six counties starting in New Zealand. We continued northwest through Asia and luckily were granted entry to Tibet, traveling to a most precious site, the former home of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama, one of my heroes.
