by Robin Sparks | Apr 13, 2009 | Workshops
Hello Writers! We’re counting down to what promises to be another memorable writing workshop aboard the Kaptan Sevket on Turkey’s Turquoise coast September 19-26, 2009 with Larry Habegger, editor and co-founder of Travelers’ Tales Books. Aboard our classic Turkish...
by Robin Sparks | Mar 6, 2009 | Published Articles, Travel
There are the plans you have for your journey, and the plans your journey has for you. Things to do in San Rafael, Argentina: 1. Get an appendectomy. We were on the neighbor’s ranch watching the annual gallop of the gauchos towards town when it was decided that I...
by Robin Sparks | Feb 13, 2009 | Blog, Travel
I’ve been on a news sabbatical ( presidential inauguration excepted) for three months. No newspapers, no television, no internet news. It’s amazing how little I don’t miss when I go without a media fix. The world goes on and the sad fact that people...
by Robin Sparks | Feb 10, 2009 | Blog, Travel, Where's Robin now?
Escape the World – three words that like a siren song tugged at my weary soul. Nine years of life on the road and a recent move to a foreign country had taken their toll. In spite of a multitude of reasons Not To Go, I went anyway, escaping the winter of...