Travel Writing & Travel Photography
By Cheryl Blackerby The Palm Beach Daily News (Oct. 26, 2013) MENDOZA, Argentina — I have to admit that I was feeling pretty mellow. A musician played classical music on a guitar as I relaxed in the courtyard of the…
By Cheryl Blackerby The Palm Beach Daily News (Dec. 24, 2016) SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK, Va. — A cold rain fell on my wooden cabin in the misty twilight of late afternoon. As I was building a fire in the stone…
By Cheryl Blackerby The Palm Beach Daily News (Jan. 9, 2016) MARSEILLAN, France — Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor announced her decision. She would walk 2 miles on the tow path next to the Canal du Midi…
By Cheryl Blackerby The Palm Beach Daily News (Dec. 26, 2015) GSTAAD, Switzerland — Conroy and Lars Widmer slowly made their way through the lunch crowd in the restaurant of the 170-year-old Posthotel Rossli. Well-dressed millionaires called out hellos, and…
By Cheryl Blackerby The Palm Beach Daily News (March 27, 2015) NANTUCKET, Mass. — The 46-foot-long skeleton of a sperm whale hung from the ceiling over a whaleboat half its size in the Nantucket Whaling Museum. The message was clear:…
By Cheryl Blackerby The Palm Beach Daily News (Dec. 20, 2014) PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos — Dreamer was my dream horse, a white Paso Fino/Arabian whose Spanish bloodlines were obvious in his smooth ambling gait on the hard-packed sandy roads….
By Cheryl Blackerby The Palm Beach Daily News (Feb. 8, 2014) TELLURIDE, Colo. —The heavy wood door of the cafe swung open and two cowboys brushed snow from sheepskin coats and kicked icy mud from worn cowboy boots before they…
By Cheryl Blackerby The Palm Beach Daily News (Jan. 18, 2014) HELSINKI, Finland — We were all naked in the steamy warmth of the sauna. The dimly lit wood building was heated to a sweltering temperature by a wood-burning stove….
By Cheryl Blackerby The Palm Beach Daily News (Dec. 14, 2013) JERUSALEM — Sometimes things don’t go your way. You just have to accept this fact of life and carry on. And this was one of those nights. I was…
By Cheryl Blackerby The Palm Beach Post (Fl.) and The Austin American-Statesman (TX) AVANOS, Turkey — Ercihan Dilari sat coiled in the trim French saddle, his black leather chaps pressed against the Arabian stallion’s ribs, and his worn cowboy boots…
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