Travel

Traveling in Mexico: Passports and travel advisories, oh my!

ACROSS THE BORDER – Several travel-related issues along the U.S.-Mexico border are sure to raise some questions on this blog (and they already have started doing so), so I’m going to see if I can address them in this post: Is is safe to go to Tijuana? Is Mexico requiring that I have a passport to go [...]

The Great Travel Auction Bazaar

When it comes to bid­ding on air­fares, hotels and the like, there’s more than one way to skin William Shat­ner, if you catch my drift!  The con­cept of bid­ding for travel is some­thing we all need to under­stand a lit­tle bet­ter. If you play the game right, it can save you some seri­ous money. By now, we [...]

Refund-less after six months: “I feel as though we have been taken advantage of”

ELLIOTT.ORG – Everyone knows airline refunds can take a long time. But how long is too long? A month? Three months? Six months? If you said more than half a year, then meet Haley Richards and her husband, Eric, who have been patient — very patient.  More

Hmong Cooking on a Cold Winter Night

It feels worlds away and ages ago, those crisp wintry days (and nights) we spent in Wisconsin shortly after Christmas. Jerry and I traveled north from my parents’ place to Wausau, to meet Jim, and to explore the world of Hmong cooking in America. Then south again, to Milwaukee, to taste the Hmong flavors found [...]

It’s your world — go see it!

For most of my career, I’ve covered police, fire and paramedics. Basically, if it burned, bled or wore handcuffs, I wrote about it. But anyone who knew me knew what I really wanted to be writing about — travel. Now, finally, I am, via my blog, “I’m Black and I Travel!“