Travelogues

I usually take one month-long pleasure trip each year, picking a few places in a broad region that sound enticing and then figuring out how to connect them by land or sea. Most often, I travel solo, which means I'm not subjecting anyone to my spontaneous decisions or to destinations that don't seem particularly interesting; it's also easier to meet other travelers that way. However, I've gone with a partner on two trips and enjoyed some wonderful moments that I probably wouldn't have had alone.

Much of what fascinates me about traveling is watching the transitions between places, and I'm just as happy to be on a train or bus from one city to another as visiting a museum. I don't mind an occasional flight, but I'd rather see how the scenery segues from place to place. For local transportation, walking and subways are splendid, buses are OK, and I'll do almost anything possible to avoid getting into a taxi, which is often overpriced and involves haggling over the fare in many parts of the world.

In addition to the travelogues below, there's a travelogue of my time as keyboardist on the Fosse musical tour, from 29 October 2002 to 21 May 2004 (which includes Trip 8, Morocco and Southern Spain, because it was a period of time off).

Trip	Destination	Countries visited		Trip dates
1	India, Nepal, and China	India, Nepal, China		5 August to 6 September 1997
2	Southeast Asia	Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Macau		24 September to 26 October 1998
3	Mongolia to Eastern Europe	Mongolia, Russia, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany		16 September to 24 October 1999
4	Middle South America	Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Brazil		25 October to 28 November 2000
5	Southern Africa	Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Namibia, South Africa		30 October to 11 December 2001
6	Scandinavia, the Baltics, and Greenland	Sweden, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Denmark, Greenland		26 June to 13 August 2002
7	The Balkans	Italy, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Moldova, Transdniestr, Bulgaria, Turkey		20 August to 11 September 2003
8	Morocco and Southern Spain	Spain, Morocco, France		14 December 2003 to 4 January 2004
9	Western India	India		14 February to 15 March 2005
10	Outer Indochina	Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Myanmar		22 January to 26 February 2006
11	Ethiopia and Dubai	Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates		17 February to 20 March 2008
12	Iceland	Iceland		10 to 23 May 2009
13	Japan	Japan		19 February to 16 March 2010
14	Caucasus	Turkey, Kurdish Iraq, Georgia, Armenia, Nagorno Karabagh		26 September to 27 October 2012
15	Central and East Asia	Turkey, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Japan		15 September to 28 October 2013
16	Inner Indochina and Japan	Thailand, Laos, Japan		20 May to 17 June 2014
17	Madagascar	England, United Arab Emirates, Kenya, Madagascar, Netherlands		26 May to 24 June 2015
18	Northeast Asia	South Korea, Russia		7 to 29 June 2016
19	Middle East	Qatar, Lebanon, Jordan, United Arab Emirates		23 August to 4 September 2017
20	Asia, Cold and Hot	Japan, Hong Kong, Russia, China, Indonesia		29 January to 26 February 2019
21	Cuba	Cuba		3 to 21 March 2020
22	NYC-Boston Walk	USA		28 August to 7 September 2020
23	Diners of New Jersey Walk	USA		14 to 30 October 2020
24	Aruba Walk (Abecedarian Walk #1)	Aruba		21 December 2020 to 2 January 2021
25	Zanzibar Walk (Abecedarian Walk #2)	Tanzania		10 February to 6 March 2021
26	Oahu Walk (Abecedarian Walk #3)	USA		7 to 21 May 2021
27	Malta and Gozo Walks (Abecedarian Walks #4 and #5)	Malta		8 to 18 August 2021
28	Curaçao Walk (Abecedarian Walk #6)	Curaçao		6 to 11 November 2021
29	Tenerife Walk (Abecedarian Walk #7)	Spain		30 December 2021 to 20 January 2022
30	Bonaire Walk (Abecedarian Walk #8)	Bonaire		2 to 9 February 2022
31	Isle of Wight Walk (Abecedarian Walk #9)	England		9 to 16 May 2022
32	Hiiumaa Walk (Abecedarian Walk #10)	Sweden, Estonia		20 June to 5 July 2022
33	The Train to That Thing in the Desert	USA		22 July to 8 September 2022
34	Vieques Walk (Abecedarian Walk #11)	USA		16 to 21 November 2022
35	Kangaroo Island and Singapore Walks (Abecedarian Walks #12 and #13)	Australia, Singapore		19 February to 15 March 2023