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FrankBasile

The Traveling Life columnist

Basile is a professional speaker, author, community volunteer, philanthropist and retired executive of the Gene B. Glick Co.  He has presented 1,400 speeches and holds the designation of certified speaking professional.  The author of 13 books, he wrote a weekly column on management for IBJ for 20 years and has penned more than 1,500 articles for various other publications.  Basile served as board chair of nine not-for-profit organizations and currently serves on the board of seven. He was senior vice president of the Gene B. Glick Co. for 33 years and has received numerous awards and recognition for his volunteer and other activities. Basile was born in New Orleans, graduated from Tulane University and is married to Katrina, who is a Realtor.  Besides speaking, writing and volunteering, his hobbies include ballroom dancing, reading, attending movies and plays, collecting art, exercising, travel and philanthropy.

E-mail: Frank_Basile@sbcglobal.net

Recent Articles

BASILE: My (big) easiest destination choice: New Orleans

April 27, 2013
I have been remiss in not writing anything about a prime tourist destination—and my hometown—New Orleans. Correction time
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TRAVEL: For best experience, go with no reservations

December 29, 2012
Like most of our trips, the only reservations we made were for the flights.
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BASILE: In Houston, a megachurch offered a practical message

October 27, 2012
As a professional speaker myself, I could appreciate his pacing and understated gestures.
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BASILE: Glad to say goodbye to Kaliningrad

July 28, 2012
Two Russian policemen approached me and asked to see my “papers.” After a cursory look, they escorted me into a small cinder block “interrogation” room, which could barely contain the three of us and my backpack.
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TRAVEL: Learning about roots makes Sicilian sojourn worthwhile

April 28, 2012
The only information we had about my ancestral family on my father’s side was a baptismal certificate for my paternal grandmother. It said she was baptized in a town called Alia.
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TRAVEL: Surprise! Carmel has turned into a place I'd like to visit

January 28, 2012
Over the past few months, we’ve fallen in love with a charming city just a few miles north of our Indianapolis home.
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TRAVEL: Gambling on wedded bliss in Las Vegas

October 29, 2011
We did not want a traditional wedding. So we went to the traditional home of non-traditional nuptials.
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TRAVEL: Overcoming Olympic travel hurdles in Greece

September 17, 2011
How a tour guide named Poopie kept an accident from turning into a traveller's nightmare.
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TRAVEL: Heading south of the border again and again

August 27, 2011
Katrina and I have made more trips (10) to Mexico and traveled to more cities and towns there (35) than we have to any other foreign country in the last 12 years.
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BASILE: Navigating South America proves challenging

May 28, 2011
Guyana, Suriname and French Guiana are connected to South America by land and little else.
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Frank's rules of travel

March 12, 2011
Following these guidelines can make for a better vacation
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TRAVEL: Perfectly Franks--Namesake meeting in Big Apple

January 29, 2011
In 2002, I received an e-mail from a gentleman in New York City named Frank Basile who said he attended Indiana University in the mid-1980s and was often asked if he was my son.
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BASILE: Your personal history can be highlight of a trip

November 27, 2010
These days, it’s easier than ever to reconnect with important people online. But face-to-face is still far better than Facebook when it comes to telling someone how important he or she was in shaping the person you’ve become.
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BASILE: For an in-state outing, you can bank on Wabash

August 28, 2010
Instead of writing about some international location this time around, I thought I’d rediscover something near home: Wabash, southwest of Fort Wayne.
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BASILE: Greenland has little dramatic history ... or greenery

May 29, 2010
The highlight of the trip: the inspiring ice fields of Ilulissat.
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BASILE: Three lessons from a harrowing trip to Paraguay

March 27, 2010
Our trip to Uruguay and Paraguay did not get off to a good start. And it went downhill from there.
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  1. Saw the Indy Men's Chorus "Music of Gilbert & Sullivan" at the Indiana Historical Society on Sunday evening.

  2. Temporary workers are not "tools" they are people and companies that keep large amounts of temp staff are cheating.

  3. I miss having them around. I hope one of their stores is in the general Meridian/86th Street area. I will make good use of it.

  4. The Fringe! Plus, the simple fact that there are so many local faves in such close proximity to each other.

  5. I remenber, watching the toll road, being built, through South Bend, when I was 10 years old. I believe, back then that it was estimated, that the toll road, would be paid for in 20 years and then it would be free. I am now 71, what happened? Since the power is in the people, by that, I mean that, we the people are in total control of everything. I, suggest that no one ever use the toll road again, let it go broke. We the people can control the price of everything, from groceries to gas, if we would just do it. If we don't pay the asking price, the sellers will lower the price and if we wait awhile, they will lower the price to what we accept as reasonable. I would like to know why a highway like interstate 94, is so well maintained, a much better highway, than the toll road, but has no tolls. I would also like to know why, a sitting governor, with a term limit, maximum of eight years, can lease, public property, for 75 years. Even though I have transponders in both of my trucks and will not be affected by the increase, I have been and will contine to avoid using the toll road. I make many trips from northern Indiana to Chicago, every year, and I prefer the better highway, I94!

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