Travel Log
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
The Cultural Debris Bavaria Excursion
Cultural Debris Excursions are headed to Bavaira the first two weeks in July! Alan Cornett and I are building on the success of our Genoa Excursion from October 2022 and leading intimate small group trips to Salzburg, Austria and Oberammergau, Germany the first and second weeks of July 2023. Each [...]
Discovering Cultural Debris; Paying Deep Attention to People and Place
We walk into La Medina, the spice shop on Via San Luca in Genoa and I greet Sabri, the owner. “Salaam, sadiqi. It is so good to see you again.” He steps around the counter and hugs me and says, “It is good to see you, as well. This is [...]
This *Feels* Different
This article appears in the July/August (Vol 25/No 6) edition of Gilbert, the magazine of the Society of GK Chesterton. Please visit the society web site www.chesterton.org and subscribe or become a member! He travels because of his ignorance; it is exactly in that that he shows his intelligence. --GK [...]
On Travel and Its Importance To You
"Someone hauled that wood up here." That was one key point of discussion when our family stood atop the Kofel, a small, but steep granite mountain on the west side of Oberammergau in the Ammergauer Alps of Germany. You don't need to be an experienced mountaineer to [...]
Cultural Debris Excursion to Genoa
Friends, Alan Cornett, host of the Cultural Debris Podcast is joining me to host a Cultural Debris Excursion to Genoa in Autumn 2022. This is a small group (6 guests plus the two hosts), highly curated excursion that will explore the cultural debris of Genoa, Italy. This is a nearly [...]
Genoa – A Gem Hiding Out in the Open
If you’re looking for a special place to take a special get-away, away from crowds of tourists and with few Americans, a lovely coast, mountains and the most enchanting city center, then Genoa is for you. With a culture that is at once Italian and deeply unique, Liguria’s [...]
