Choice Points

Travel and the Importance of Leading a Balanced Life

Nov 29, 2025

World Parents Day and the Choices We Make

Jul 23, 2025

Global Acts of Kindness, random and otherwise

Feb 3, 2018

Best travel idea – Social Good with Kelley Louise

May 10, 2016

A Solo adventure – Fun places to visit in London

Mar 17, 2016

Travel and the Importance of Leading a Balanced Life

by Elaine J. Masters | Nov 29, 2025

Travel has been a priority for most of my life. It can be a luxury, a necessity for work, an...

World Parents Day and the Choices We Make

by Elaine J. Masters | Jul 23, 2025

The marine layer was still thick along the San Diego coastline, as Eric and his kids packed their...

Global Acts of Kindness, random and otherwise

by Elaine J. Masters | Feb 3, 2018

Random acts of kindness don’t have to be complicated to make a difference in the world....

Best travel idea – Social Good with Kelley Louise

by Elaine J. Masters | May 10, 2016

Best travel idea emerges Kelley Louise was passionate about the travel and social good before it...

A Solo adventure – Fun places to visit in London

by Elaine J. Masters | Mar 17, 2016

The sky never changed color all day. I woke in London, in a second floor, Airbnb, walk-up facing a...

Wrestling with terror – Another mother’s son

by Elaine J. Masters | Nov 16, 2015

With the violent events of the last week I can’t write blithely about the bliss of travel....

Seeing America through other’s eyes

by Elaine J. Masters | Sep 12, 2015

Travel books find their way to my desk regularly. If only there were time to savor them all....

Tribal connections – The Sisterhood of the World Bloggers

by Elaine J. Masters | Aug 17, 2015

Don’t you love it when you find your tribe? When I started admitting, publicly, that I was a...

Finite – Save Just One Rhino

by Elaine J. Masters | Feb 2, 2015

Finite: Adjective 1. Having bounds or limits; not infinite; measurable. As a Westerner,...

The nine ages of the season – a holiday timeline

by Elaine J. Masters | Dec 22, 2014

Follow my blog with Bloglovin However you celebrate the end of the year, the season beckons us...

Malala Day – Stand with #StrongerThan

by Elaine J. Masters | Jul 14, 2014

Imagine riding home from school with your friends and a strange man jumps onto the bus, asks for...

Wandering hearts – Making a long distance relationship work

by Elaine J. Masters | Feb 11, 2014

Can distance make the heart grow stronger? It didn’t feel like it when I stood in the...

Elaine J. Masters

Elaine J. Masters, travel writer / tripwellgal on the road

Whether you're taking a short road trip or zipping across the planet, I'm be here to help. Learn from my years of travel for work and pleasure, solo, family and a few tours. The Tripwellgal mission remains: To help us connect with our beautiful planet and each other with care and wonder. Stay in touch and happy travels!

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