Photo by woodleywonderworks cc While I reuse and recycle paper religiously, I used to happily gather up the catalogs from my mailbox and check out the latest in gardening supplies and fashion. I somehow didn’t see my paper-use disconnect. I’m apparently with the mainstream on this one in liking catalogs. Surveys show that the…
Edythe Salzmann and Jean Weisel take UnTours with us nearly every year. This week they share the spotlight together as UnTourists of the Week. We asked them for one picture. They sent four, and they were all so good, we couldn’t choose! Don’t they just look like the best of friends having the best of…
Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour and why you chose that particular destination? Our last UnTour experience took us to Atrani on the Amalfi Coast for two weeks and then for another two weeks to Locarno, Switzerland to enjoy the beautiful Ticino Region. Both areas suited our needs to for a…
Our guest blogger is Bob Gough, who among many titles, is the attorney for the Intertribal Council On Utility Policy, which works on energy solutions including developing wind farms and straw bale housing construction on Indian reservations. Bob hosted Hal on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation several years back, and I finally met Bob when he…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Mary and I love Switzerland and UnTours. Our most recent trip was in Aug/Sep 2010 to Hasliberg-Reuti in Switzerland. We spent 2 weeks at the Pollux apartment with its incredible views of the Wetterhorn mountain group, the Eiger, and our local village (Reuti). Shortly…
The UnTours Foundation promotes smart, green, and generous businesses including B Corporations, which use Gandhi’s line: Be the Change. Here’s a song by the same title for your listening and viewing pleasure! Send us your photos that answer the question posed in the video! We’ll post them on our Facebook page. “I’ve always thought people…
Photo by Tom Coppen cc On the eve of World Water Day in March, the UN announced that there are more cell phones on this planet than toilets. Over one third of the world’s people have no toilets. Many of those who do, live where their sanitation “systems” go directly into rivers and oceans. When…
We keep our UnTours Foundation board members busy in an effort to keep them out of trouble! Victor Mallet and Bill Wiedmann are working hard on our behalf selling pickles. The Philadelphia Inquirer found this all quite interesting. Read all about it! And watch a video (after a short ad) that includes a song about…
1. Tell us a little bit about your most recent UnTour. Our most recent UnTour was at the Hastalska apartment in the Jewish Quarter in Prague. This was a great location for exploring the city both on foot and by public transportation. The apartment was delightful, well furnished and equipped, and we enjoyed the small…
When I met Norma Taussig 17 years ago, we bonded over Women Who Run With the Wolves, a powerful book about the female psyche written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes. That connection led to the title of a poem I wrote for Norma’s 75th birthday. And here we are, about to celebrate Norma’s 90th birthday on…