A newsletter about travel after kids.
Years and years of friends’ Birthright trips to Israel filtered through social media showed jaunts to the hyper-saline Dead Sea. Consuming the images of bright blue sky and eerily buoyant water, it hadn’t quite occurred to me that if one were to follow the Sea up and around they would encounter the occupied Palestinian territory of the West Bank and, eventually, run right into the environmentally diverse country of Jordan.
Read MoreIn 2011, I embarked on a two week volunteer trip to Lima, Peru during which time I read Alain de Botton's The Art of Travel. One weekend my group drove south to the massive Huacachina sand dunes, a boundless desert playground for visitors. We raced around in dune buggies and took turns sand-boarding, an activity in which one sits on a small surf board and speeds down the side of a dune the size of a Manhattan building from top to bottom.
Read MoreOur trip to Dubai turned out to be something of a given. Once we pulled the trigger on the Emirates flights, we had friends to travel with, a place to stay and an itinerary essentially laid out for us thanks to those friends. Jordan was our wild card.
Read MorePetra, Wadi Rum & the Dead Sea in Jordan. March 2018
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