Travel Archives | Philip Yancey

Thanksgiving Derailed

Philip Yancey — Thu, 25 Nov 2021 08:49:47 +0000

The year was 1982, one of my first trips overseas. I got a sore neck, turning this way and that to take in the sights of the five-ring circus that is India. A brightly painted elephant walking unaccompanied down the street among the roaming cows. A snake charmer with his wily mongoose and basketful of ... Read more

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In the Air Again

Philip Yancey — Thu, 17 Jun 2021 05:11:46 +0000

After staying home virtually all of 2020, in the Spring of this year I started traveling again. In May I ventured an international trip, accepting an invitation to speak at a Europe Teen Challenge conference in Portugal. At the airline gate, twenty minutes before departure, I learned that my COVID-19 antigen test, required for travel, ... Read more

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An Anniversary Worth Remembering

Philip Yancey — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:36:09 +0000

On a driving trip through Scandinavia I got my first view of aurora borealis, the Northern Lights. In Finland, just twenty miles from the Russian border, I stood shivering in the cold and watched as waves of luminous color arced across the sky, covering perhaps one-seventh of the dark dome above. Tendrils of green light ... Read more

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Snapshots from Asia

Philip Yancey — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 05:20:32 +0000

I traveled to Southeast Asia in late July, in the midst of their steamy tropical summer. The trip began in Singapore, a clean and modern place where, mercifully, most buildings are air-conditioned. The tiny city-state reminds me of Disneyland: no litter, no graffiti, no sign of poverty. Singapore punishes vandalism with caning, and bans the ... Read more

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A Refugee Haven

Philip Yancey — Mon, 15 Jul 2019 07:08:34 +0000

I am flying into Beirut, Lebanon, for a conference, and from the air the city looks to deserve its reputation as “the Paris of the Middle East.” Upscale shops and apartment buildings hug the hills bordering the turquoise Mediterranean. On the ground, however, the city tells a different story. Holes made by artillery pockmark many ... Read more

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Emerging from the Dark

Philip Yancey — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 08:58:10 +0000

During Soviet days the authorities arrested and imprisoned my father, a pastor. He was sentenced to be executed, but Russia was constructing something above the Arctic Circle, so Stalin sent him and other prisoners up there to work in the cold. When he returned home, aged and sick, after 19 years, he learned that his ... Read more

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On the Road Again

Philip Yancey — Thu, 19 Jul 2018 06:51:55 +0000

I travel to other countries about four times a year, usually at the invitation of an international publisher of my books. This year, for example, I’ve flown to Japan, Brazil, and Argentina, and have trips planned to Ireland and Eastern Europe (Hungary, Belarus, and Ukraine). The trips are exhausting and expensive, and on return I ... Read more

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Don’t Cry For Me, Sarajevo

Philip Yancey — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 15:05:23 +0000

On a book tour last month, as we were driving along the highway from Croatia to Bosnia, traffic came to a sudden stop near the border. Car doors opened, drivers stepped outside for a smoke, and everyone speculated on what had caused the backup. An accident? Road work? No, as it turned out: personnel were ... Read more

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