The Torchlight Travel Blog

Where I get to muse about my travels, such as they are....and write about some of the fun places I've visited, that you might want to visit, too. This page is a cornucopia of all I decide to add under the blog concept, in chronological order,but you will also find dedicated pages under the main blog button above.

The primary Torchlight Travel Blog pieces you will find in the top right feed.

Tales from the Treehouse is a concept I've been playing with while developing a travel diary with the editor of a Luxury Lifestyle and Travel Magazine I've been writing for, (as yet in development.)

You will also find excerpts from my book, Each Wind That Blows, and the "I Hadn't Really Lived Until..." is where I collect moments that mattered to me and others but maybe don't merit a full length story.What's yours? I want to know!(And you might win a book.)

This is Africa

TIA. This Is Africa. And much like Forrest Gump’s box of chocolates, you never know what you’re gonna get. I had rather grander visions of the Source of the Zambezi, not this murky hole in the ground, half obscured by the root of a tree, and currently not showing much of an inclination to live long and prosper all the way to the magnificent Victoria Falls and beyond. I may not have shaved my legs for this (obscure reference to an old country song), but I did just drive throug

I Hadn't Really Lived Until...

I watched the storm roll in over the Inyanga Mountains... ...of Northeastern Zimbabwe. The vivid green of moments before paled and retreated in the face of the oncoming storm, the roiling clouds and blustery winds. And when the rain finally sought us out, it brought with it an unexpected cold that belied the memory of seeking refuge from the heat, skinnydipping in a frigid mountain river only minutes before... What's your story? I want to know!! Send me photo if you have it,