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Travel Writing Defined: The Person versus The Place?

I was at travel writing conference not long ago, and the cocktail conversation eventually (and inevitably) turned to the question of what made a good nonfiction narrative.  Opinions abounded, but one guy – who happened to be an editor at a major ...

From ALISON STEIN WELLNER, Perceptive Travel Web Magazine,  23 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Christopher Columbus,  Edith Wharton

First Travel Memories

One Saturday afternoon, when I was eight years old, I asked my mother for a few sheets of paper and a pen. She tore out a few sheets from the memo pad she used to write casual letters, and grabbed a Bic from the cup attached to the wall near the ...

From ALISON STEIN WELLNER, Perceptive Travel Web Magazine,  17 Nov 2009
Related Topics: United Nations

Destruction and Creativity in Berlin

Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and I wish I could have been there for it.  Actually, I just want to go back to Berlin, historic milestone or no — the city took a hold of my imagination in a way that few others have ...

From ALISON STEIN WELLNER, Perceptive Travel Web Magazine,  10 Nov 2009

Postcards, Art and The Future

Earlier this year, Tohono Chul in Tucson put out a call to artists asking for 4 inch by 6 inch postcards representing a real or imagined trip to Arizona.  The cards were to be made in any kind of fiber art technique, and were to be sent unprotected ...

From ALISON STEIN WELLNER, Perceptive Travel Web Magazine,  3 Nov 2009

Dissolving the Language Barrier

Early on in my recent trip to Mexico, I was having dinner with a small group at a restaurant in Guadalajara. When the meal was finished, the woman who was charged to leading us back to our bus spoke Spanish and French, but no English. She also wasn’t ...

From ALISON STEIN WELLNER, Perceptive Travel Web Magazine,  27 Oct 2009

Visiting Frida Kahlo: Not (Just) a Love Story

One of the things that everyone said I must do when I arrived in Mexico City was visit Casa Azul, the home of the artist Frida Kahlo, now transformed into a remarkable museum. It was advice I was happy to take, because although I actually didn’t see ...

From ALISON STEIN WELLNER, Perceptive Travel Web Magazine,  20 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Frida Kahlo,  Diego Rivera,  Salma Hayek,  David Alfaro Siqueiros,  Leon Trotsky

Mexico and The Mean World

I’m in Guadalajara right now,  in the midst of a two week trip around Mexico. It’s certainly an interesting time to travel here, during this prolonged aftermath from the spate of horrendous headlines earlier in the year. Although Mexico hasn’t been as ...

From ALISON STEIN WELLNER, Perceptive Travel Web Magazine,  13 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Rachael Ray,  Starbucks Corp

Consider the Oyster

Evening had fallen on the South Koster island, the westermost settled area in Sweden.  The Hotel Ekenäs had prepared a special treat for its guests in the bar:  fresh oysters that had been in the ocean just hours before, now arranged on platters, near ...

From ALISON STEIN WELLNER, Perceptive Travel Web Magazine,  6 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Mark Kurlansky,  Gourmet Magazine,  David Foster Wallace

Calling the Cows in West Sweden

I was hearing sounds that I couldn’t identify, but this didn’t entirely surprise me. I was standing in the garden at Läckö Castle, on Lake Värnen near Lidköping,  in West Sweden. I’d just gotten off from the red eye flight from the United States and I ...

From ALISON STEIN WELLNER, Perceptive Travel Web Magazine,  29 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Govinda

How Do You Remember Your Travels?

Travel is first about experience, but then, very quickly, it’s about memories.  If you peek in any traveler’s bag, you’ll find the evidence of some habit designed to capture memories, whether it’s a camera, a video camera, a journal, a sketchbook,  a ...

From ALISON STEIN WELLNER, Perceptive Travel Web Magazine,  22 Sep 2009
Related Topics: Land Rover,  Twitter Inc,  Facebook Inc.

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