Doann Houghton-Alico

I wrote about seeing in one of my blogs.

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I wrote about seeing in one of my blogs. Here is a little more on that from a slightly different perspective. I use epigraphs for each of my chapters in Voice of a Voyage: Rediscovering the World During a Ten-year Circumnavigation. In Chapter 3, “The Longest Passage: What It Means to Travel” I quote Edward … Read more

I’m leaving on a jet plane—is there any other kind?

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I’m leaving on a jet plane—is there any other kind? But seriously, my grandson and I took off this morning for Japan. He just graduated from high school and starts college early this fall. I told him I would take him on an international trip of his chosen destination—not as an extravagant gift, but as … Read more

For me, this voyage was about learning to see in a specialized way

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For me, this voyage was about learning to see in a specialized way. I wanted to see beyond sights, into meaning. In the Yucatan, I saw an invisible people, the Mayan, wavering in their precarious present. What a people do with their past is as important as their future vision, but I saw their past … Read more

Voice of a Voyage: Rediscovering the World During a Ten-year Circumnavigation

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Roooll, tharump, roooll, tharump: spice jars, plates, CDs, and everything else slides back and forth in harsh dissonance. Our boat slashes through whale-sized waves. Sounds mix discordantly: the swirling violent wind; waves crashing on deck as if we are slamming into a brick wall; all our possessions skidding back and forth in their lockers; metal … Read more