Halong Bay, Vietnam
Halong Bay, Vietnam
“The most satisfying travel is attentive, as if we were in love.” —Pico Iyer

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, and on another site (before this personal site was constructed), called Blogspot, you can find posts 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, including James Sullivan’s Over the Moat, his memoir 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 experience was part of our most ambitious journey: in 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 place, the former home of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, one of my heroes.

Copy of Writing travel rpt in Shanghai4 008
Materials for writing on Vietnam and Cambodia travels while in Shanghai apartment
Journaling in Peruvian airport in Amazon jungle
Scavenging in bookstore, Hội An, Vietnam