Hello Reader, 🧠Where in the World? Greetings. This is our first email of 2026. While we’re still emerging from the holidays and looking to the new year, we want to thank you for subscribing to this newsletter and for following Travel Past 50 – our blog, our Facebook page and community, and on Instagram. Most of all we appreciate your comments and questions, whether they are about our posts or about your own travel plans. Thanks for continuing to read and reach out to us. 🗞️ Travel News From...
11 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, Are you ready to plan independent travels around Europe? Are you searching for travel ideas that suit your personal interests and help you find special sites that aren't teeming with people? Next month Kris will be part of a free online event that brings together more than 30 travel experts to help you plan your personal Europe trip for 2026 that will fit your style and not leave you fighting the crowds. Kris will talk about Hybrid Travel, or how to segue from group tours to...
21 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, 🧠Where in the World? We’re at home and all over the place this holiday season. Thankfully, travel and technology help us stay close to family and friends, no matter how far apart we’re living. In Minnesota, cold temperatures and snow, even under bright blue skies, remind us that those in need are both right next door and spread across the globe. Join us in taking time to give where you see fit. We like to combine hyper local donations (to food shelves or housing) with global...
28 days ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, This could be you next year in Ireland. 🧠Where in the World? We're here at home, digging out from our first snowfall and plotting our trip this weekend in Chicago. We're meeting with our friends at the Tourist Bureau of Spain to plan our visit(s) to our favorite country next year, and will certainly take in as much of Chicago's cultural scene as we have time for. 🛫 Get Going: Tours We Recommend For You It's not too early to plan your travel for 2026, so have a look at these...
about 2 months ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, Here, this week before Thanksgiving Day, we’re looking ahead. Like much of America, we’re somewhere on the pre-holiday spectrum: traveling, expecting travelers, messaging far-away family, airport runs, road trips, meal planning, grocery runs, housecleaning, and casting a side-eye toward those early holiday sales and glaring Christmas decorations. This week, we're also being bombarded with Black Friday This and Cyber That, so we thought we'd keep this email very brief and let you...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
Hello Reader, King's Mountain, from scenic Sligo. 🧠Where in the World? Yup, we're here, at home, plotting our next steps. We have this funny feeling time is accelerating, so let's get on with it. 🛫 Get Going: Tours We Recommend For You We have much to recommend! And here's a secret: our Travel Past 50 groups are inevitably filled with people who normally travel independently – and then discover they enjoy the small group dynamics (not to mention we take care of the details)! In order of...
2 months ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, Our lodging in Sligo, Ireland, was Temple House, a centuries-old manor house, seen here in the background flanked by the property's original castle ruins.. 🧠Where in the World? We're in Valencia, Spain, on the last leg of a six week sojourn in Europe that has taken us to France, England, Ireland, and Spain. Highlights are too many to list here, but dozens of fresh oysters in Sète, France, seeing Stephen Fry as Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest on the London...
3 months ago • 4 min read
Hello Reader, Among our favorite moments of our recently completed Elective Study Abroad tour was the enormous pile of fresh oysters we slurped down at the market in Sète, France. The Art of Living was the title of the course. Indeed. 🧠Where in the World? We’re thinking ahead so you don’t have to. While we’re on the road (or train tracks), we want to share some of the best travel opportunities we’ve seen of late. Read on, follow the links, and plan your next trip soon. 🇦🇷 First and foremost,...
3 months ago • 5 min read
Hello Reader, You could join us in South America! 🧠Where in the World? We’re on our way, traveling again. It almost doesn’t matter where we’re going, or from whence we cometh. It will be a welcome change to new scenery, new people, and new information. Whether we are trying to figure out ground transportation or diving into art history, we know our daily intake of U.S. news will subside a bit. And for that we are grateful. No worries, we’ll still be of this world, and reporting on the four...
4 months ago • 6 min read