Travel is about going places from which you never entirely come back. – Pico Iyer In December I sat down to update the list of countries I’ve been to, adding Tunisia and the four Balkan countries Robie and I visited last year. The list includes my first border crossing into Canada at the age of … More The Travelers Century Club
We can all be comforted by the thought that he’s not really gone, there’s a little Tuttle left in all of us. In fact, you might say that all of us together made up Tuttle. – M*A*S*H As a late bloomer and chronic overachiever, I’m forever racing to make up for lost time. So when … More Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name
Ch-ch-ch-changes. Turn and face the strange. – David Bowie Life doesn’t always work out the way we plan. When a friend said he knew someone with an extra ticket to the Plant Page concert, I didn’t think of it as a date with Robie. When I bought Robie a simple, silver band for his birthday, … More When things didn’t work out the way we planned
Sometimes miracles come in pairs – Author Unknown If Spain holds a special place in my heart, Mexico has captured my soul. I’ve crossed Mexico’s borders more than any other nation except my own, studied the country’s culture, language and history, worked for Mexican hotels and even briefly called the place home. But I … More My lifelong love affair with Mexico
San Sebastian is what Walt Disney might have created if he’d been God instead of an ambitious American. – Let’s Go: Spain, Portugal and Morocco 1988 The nightmares started soon after Robie booked our flight to Spain. In the dream I’m bundled in a wool coat trudging down a busy sidewalk desperate to reach my … More Looking for a place to call home in Green Spain
Livin’ la Vida Loca – Ricky Martin Robie and I sat in the longest line of traffic either of us had ever seen. Behind the line of cars, we lingered at a standstill and kept time by the dozen or so vehicles that flew at us every 12-15 minutes. But on our side of the … More When the only lifeline is a two-lane highway
It’s the End of the World as We Know it (And I Feel Fine) – R.E.M. The pandemic changed everything. Almost as soon as Robie announced he was thinking of retiring “sometime in the future, in the next few years, eventually but not soon,” I booked a trip to Costa Rica for what was supposed … More When the world stood still
Only in a leap from the lion’s head shall he prove his worth. – Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Leaping without looking is the single greatest act of faith I know. Like when I was three and declared for all eternity that my favorite color would be purple. Or the day I packed a … More Life takes a leap of faith
Long you live and high you fly. And smiles you’ll give and tears you’ll cry. And all you touch and all you see, Is all your life will ever be. -Pink Floyd I kept trying to remember how we got here. Not so long ago we were sailing the blue waters of the Caribbean, snorkeling … More How did we get here?
Father Christmas, give us some money, we got no time for your silly toys. We’ll beat you up if you don’t hand it over, give all the toys … to the little rich boys. – The Kinks “I’m out,” was all Robie said when he poked his head inside my office. There was no need … More The story so far…
