Author name: Mary Morris

How do you know if you’re a traveler? What are the telltale signs? According to Mary Morris, it is your obsession with maps. Or at least it is hers. Since she traveled to the American West as a child or as a teenager when her mother carted her off to Europe, she has been obsessed with them. Years later when her mother would find her with an Atlas spread out on the bed, she’d say, “Oh, no. She’s traveling again.” For decades Morris often traveled solo, keeping careful journals and writing about her adventures. Whether wandering through Central America by bus as she did in her travel classic “Nothing to Declare: Memoirs of a Woman Traveling Alone” or searching for tigers in India by Jeep, which she wrote about in her more recent “All the Way to the Tigers,” it is her maps – both inner and outer – that have guided her.

Choose Your Adventure: In Santorini, the Wonderful Indulgence of Sailing the Caldera

Destinations, Greece, Mediterranean / 7 minutes of reading

Volcanoes are not something I am normally drawn to as I am to, say, a Caribbean beach or a Parisian café. And swimming in the crater of one wasn’t exactly on my bucket list. But I am drawn to adventure and to stories. As we were looking over the various excursions offered aboard Windstar’s “Treasures of the Greek Isles” cruise, “Sailing the Caldera” appealed to me.  The description — plunging into the green sulfur waters and a Greek lunch served on board — was alluring. The Atlantis mystery made me think that other stories like it would bubble up from the bottom of the caldera’s sea floor.

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What It’s Like: Sailing the Greek Isles on Wind Spirit

Destinations, Greece, Onboard Windstar, Wind Spirit / 19 minutes of reading

And soon we were being guided to Wind Spirit where she stood waiting, docked, just back from a previous voyage but shipshape and awaiting her new and eager voyagers. It’s not a big ship. It only has about 130 cabins. But it’s a sleek, tight sailing vessel with six sails that would soon be unfurled.  

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