I have been thinking about doing this kind of trip since I was an art professor at the Pont-Aven School of Contemporary Art, in Fall 2006, drawing in the "Forest of Love", at the edge of the village of Pont-Aven (made famous by Paul Gauguin and friends).  I took two groups last year ...

I must say at this point that I hoped I'd love India, and that this trip would be a fabulous adventure, but I have found out that I am a naïve Westerner, and I have been caught off guard by most of my feelings about it. I'm rather embarrassed that I can't just love it, and I know it'...

I would be lying if I didn't say here that for the first time I sure can see the appeal of being an insulated American traveling in style in the Third World.  But I think it comes with a kind of attention I simply I don't really like.  I mean I wouldn't mind the attentiveness...

I was nervous about going to London for the first time in 26 years (!)  I was afraid that it would upset me, having no vestige left of my childhood favorite home of Carnaby Street and the Kings Road, and being a big, gritty, teeming city full of fantastic things I couldn’t possibly afford to ...