Solo Travel – Michele Potter, PhD

Powell’s Bookstore: the Random Reading Refuge

Reading Time: 5 minutes If you don’t know who you are, take a look at your bookshelves. … Read story…Powell’s Bookstore: the Random Reading Refuge

Reading Time: 4 minutes Procida at last! Isn’t this what I have come for? Meeting my fantasy friends from the film Il Postino? It

Reading Time: 6 minutes While I was climbing Mount Etna, I got a horrible cold. It was so bad, in fact, that I lost

Reading Time: 4 minutes While I was climbing Mt. Etna… This is a phrase that bears repeating, and so I try to use it

Reading Time: 4 minutes When I don’t know what to do first, I just watch people and pick out someone who looks like they

Reading Time: 4 minutes The next day, a Monday, arrives like a hangover. It is slightly rainy and gray, and everyone is gone. There

Reading Time: 4 minutes Naples has welcomed American Sailors since time immemorial (at least since World War II) and it still welcomes everyone, that

Reading Time: 6 minutes The next day I am feeling that first bit of tourist glow, having somehow managed to find myself exactly where

Reading Time: 2 minutes “Do I look like a tourist?” I ask my sweet but sarcastic sister, who just laughs and goes her own

Reading Time: 4 minutes This could be the start of something big. Or maybe small. A small idea that brings you round again to