Doann Houghton-Alico

For Intelligent, Inquisitive People

The Delights of Local Travel

Travel close to home can be exhilarating, connecting, inspiring—and I recently had all three of those experiences. The first was thanks to another of those …

Read More ⇒

Travel Blogs

I was curious about what others wrote in travel posts, besides the guidebook sorts of things like where to stay that’s cheap and doesn’t have …

Read More ⇒

Colors and Memory

Writing about yellow last time led me to musings on colors and memory. I have a section on color in Voice of a Voyage: Rediscovering …

Read More ⇒

Yellow

I do know that if I want you to read my blogs, I must be consistent about posting them, so you’re not wasting your time. …

Read More ⇒

Back on the Water

This photo was taken on the Lycian coast of Turkey. But my most recent back-on-the-water experience was right here in landlocked Chaffee County Colorado! It …

Read More ⇒

Impressions of Cambodia

I hope you have a good sense of geography or an atlas or globe nearby. I know I’m jumping all over the world in these …

Read More ⇒

Our visit to Cambodia

In my next blog about Voice of a Voyage, I write more about Carl Safina and the issue of Japan’s illegal whale hunting. While we …

Read More ⇒

From Hiroshima to Kyoto

From Hiroshima we traveled to Kyoto—Japan’s city of temples, and, if you come at the right time of year, cherry blossoms. We did not, but …

Read More ⇒