Over the past few weeks, I’ve been researching Edgar Allan Poe. This is for my in-progress space tourism/sci fi essay, which has led me back to the origins of science fiction, among other places. (In truth, the scope of this piece is expanding at an enormous rate and I’m not exactly sure what is [...]
Archive for the ‘On Adventure’ Category
Why I’m Thinking About Poe
Posted in Daybook, On Adventure, On Books, On History, On Places & Travel, Work in Progress on June 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Getting High on Pike’s Peak – Perceptive Travel/USA Today
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, On Adventure, On Health & Wellness, On Places & Travel, United States Travel on June 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
At over 14,000 feet of elevation, I felt like I had a good excuse to research altitude’s effects on the human body. So I did. Also, I was really freaked out by that woman’s purple gums. USA Today link.
The Dream of Yesterday
Posted in Daybook, On Adventure, On Places & Travel, Work in Progress on May 24, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just as in the sciences we have learned that we are too ignorant to safely pronounce anything impossible, so for the individual. We cannot know just what are our limitations, we can hardly say with certainty that anything is necessarily within or beyond our grasp. Each must remember that no one can predict to what [...]
Great Explorers of the World: Cheng Ho
Posted in Daybook, On Adventure on April 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Do you know Cheng Ho? I’ve been reading about this Chinese Explorer, a fascinating character who deserves to be better known. His travels pre-dated the most famous (and infamous) European explorers, and he traveled extensively before China turned inward, and outlawed the building of ships with more than two masts.
Shenandoah: A Bear, A Frying Pan, A Marriage – Perceptive Travel
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, On Adventure, On Places & Travel, On Too Much Information, United States Travel on March 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
In honor of my 15th wedding anniversary, here’s the tale of one of the least successful trips I’ve ever taken. It’s a classic comedy because it ends in marriage.
What’s Your Cartouche? – Perceptive Travel
Posted in Africa Travel, Alison's Portfolio, On Adventure, On Places & Travel, On Too Much Information on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m leaving for the airport to fly to Morocco in just about twenty minutes. I’ve never been before, and the idea of landing in Casablanca, as they claim I’ll be doing by tomorrow morning, sounds impossibly exotic — almost as if I heard that I was flying JFK to Oz. (As in Dorothy and the [...]
Catching Up: August, September and October 2009 Stories
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, On Adventure, On Culture & Trends, On Design & Art, On Food & Drink, On Places & Travel, Travel to Europe, Travel to Latin America, United States Travel on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Oh how woefully neglectful I’ve been in keeping up with this, my portfolio blog! It’s definitely been a busy few months, I’ve traveled to Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, Oregon, Sweden and Mexico, and have been very busy working on stories throughout. I also started to write a weekly essay for the most-excellent Perceptive Travel, while [...]
The Heat Seeker: Eat, Sweat, Love — The Travel Channel’s World Hum
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, On Adventure, On Culture & Trends, On Food & Drink, On Places & Travel, On Too Much Information, Travel to Europe, Travel to Latin America, United States Travel on May 11, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Today starts my five-part series for World Hum on my quest for the spiciest food I could take. (And there’s video of me talking about it too!) It’s a story that took several years to research and then a long while to write, but I’m pretty proud of it, so have a look! Part One: [...]
Daybook: Jewish Pirates Ahoy! Or Just, Oy.
Posted in Daybook, On Adventure, On Judaism, On Places & Travel, Travel to Islands, Travel to Latin America on November 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m getting started on background research for a piece about Barbados, and came across this book which published earlier this week: Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom–and Revenge by Edward Kritzler. Jewish pirates –oh what [...]
Winter Scuba: Time to Get Tanked–The Street, 10/21/2008
Posted in Alison's Portfolio, Asia Travel, On Adventure, On Places & Travel, Travel to Islands, Travel to Latin America on October 24, 2008 |
