I’ve written about travel moments in the past.  Very rarely did they have to do with the actual place that I was in, but more with a culmination circumstances.  The Duff Brothers could have been performing in any city.  It was the bar, the people, and the music that captured the travel moment.  The same with the pop band in Chiang Mai.  That band could have been playing in any international city. …

My wife and I sat in our room at the Westin Europa and Regina trying to plot out dinner plans over a bottle of Prosecco.  She manned the TripAdvisor app on our tablet, and I managed a few blogs on my phone and a myriad of tour books.  We wanted to find the perfect restaurant for that authentic Venetian meal.  The kind of place where we were the only tourists in a…