Tag Archives: America

No One Ever Died of Boredom…Right?

Posted on August 21, 2010 by Reannon Muth

I’ll be flying back to the US in four days.  And I’m afraid.  But not for the reasons you’d think.  I’m not particularly worried about finding a job or making new friends (I’ve got a lot of experience at doing … Continue reading →

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America, I Love you but…

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Reannon Muth

“Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live … in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.” – Anatole Broyard … Continue reading →

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The Patriotic Tattoo

Posted on July 15, 2009 by Reannon Muth

This past 4th of July (America’s Independence Day) I met a man who’d had his telephone area code tattooed to his shoulder. I was dumbfounded when he told me this. We were sitting around a bonfire in Santa Cruz, California … Continue reading →

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Alice in Americaland

Posted on July 14, 2009 by Reannon Muth

Alice in Wonderland by Annie Leibovitz “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton “So how … Continue reading →

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Why don’t more Americans travel abroad?

Posted on July 7, 2009 by Reannon Muth

I read an interesting article recently, entitled Why Americans Don’t Travel Overseas. And before anyone accuses me of making a gross generalization, let me just give you a couple of statistics. 70% percent of Americans don’t have passports Only 1% … Continue reading →

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