Welcome to “Kontje Travels – Get your little butt out there!”
I hope you enjoy my adventures, insights and secrets about traveling, and may you delight in the beauty of the people and the places in my photographs.
I don’t write travel journal entries, but rather publish short articles and essays, which I hope will inspire you to search out travel and adventure in your own lives.
If you wou’d not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing.
-Benjamin Franklin
An ancient road (sacbe) at Chichen Itza, Yucatan, Mexico
Get your little butt out there!
Love your pictures and commentary … keep it coming!
this little blog rocks!
great essay about delivering the flag- I really enjoyed reading it!
You have a really wonderful way with words – they seem to flow so easily and land in creative order.
Hey Irene,
what a fun way to catch up on you. Thanks for including this as a link in your e-mail.
Be well,
Randy
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Hi Rene,
Saw you were FB friends with my brother and was able to land here. Wow! So happy you are writing this wonderful travel log. I will live vicariously through you.
Enjoy –
Wendy
Yes! I am so excited to see this site, Irene. You are so talented and have such great stories. I love your photos as well. That one orange red sunset is amazing, just like you! Thanks for sharing! Now I know where to look when I venture out. All the best to you! Dana