Category: Travel

According to  Expedia’s 2007 Best Tourist League survey, the French took the title of the world’s worst tourists.  Some people will not be surprised by this.   Some years ago I had to act as the buffer between 10 French technicians traveling to Washington, D.C., and the hoteliers and restaurant managers upon whwhom they descended. It… Continue reading Cultural Expectations

Roanoke Island, North Carolina We took off Thursday morning for a week’s trip to the Outer Banks of North Carolina.  As someone who grew up in California, I didn’t know much about anyplace east of the Rocky Mountains, let alone south of the Mason-Dixon line.  To me, the south-eastern U.S. was all hot, humid, maybe… Continue reading Roanoke Island