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Greetings from Thailand!
I took some time this week to review some of our New Member Questionnaires, looking through your dream destinations as I put together our trip calendar for 2024 and beyond. Lots of great ideas in there - thanks very much for your feedback.
The walls of the carriage vibrate, the distant train engine makes a couple of odd, unhealthy-sounding noises - and everything rattles away into complete silence.
No, not quite. My ears fight to get accustomed - the lack of noise is like fierce pressure against my eardrums, which have spent the last 7 hours being gently but incessantly pushed the other way, as the train and its carriages noisily worked their way north out of Italy and up over the Alps.
Check out the webinar replay from our recent Q&A webinar about our Morocco: Land of Enchantment 2023 program:
Greetings from Thailand!
Was it just me, or did summer move at quite a pace this year? Either way, here we are...welcome to September!
Everything starts moving again in September...back to school, markets pick up, and a lot of travel happens, as it's an ideal month in many places for cooler temperatures and fewer tourists.
Check out the webinar replay from our recent Q&A webinar about our Peru: Land of the Incas 2023 program:
Greetings from Thailand!
I'm just a few hours into reintegration with the rest of the world after spending 7 days at a Vipassana silent meditation retreat in Koh Samui, and I feel refreshed and with new perspective having had the experience.
Without question, it was pretty hard.
“No, wait, uh - I ordered a coffee?”
It’s the mid 90s, and I’m in Italy for the first time in my adult life. Tragically I’m only in transit, so all I’ll see of this magnificently handsome country on this trip is gray, functional-looking train stations - a world away from the Italian countryside that will capture my heart a few years later.
Greetings from Thailand!
As you're reading this I've already begun a 7-day silent meditation retreat in Koh Samui - no talking, no phones, up at 4:30 AM every day. This will definitely be a challenge! But, that's the point...after six months of travelling nonstop I want to create some headspace for the next phase of things here at Wheel & Anchor.
Check out the webinar replay from our recent Q&A webinar about our Safari by Land & Sea: Southern Africa & the Seychelles 2023 program: