In Chile’s scenic Patagonia, we marveled at Magellanic penguins and a mother puma with cub. Guanacos grazed by the roadside, as did vicuñas in Chile’s northern Atacama Desert. Both...
After riding a camel in Egypt three years ago, I said never again. Then I found myself astride a camel during a recent trip to Morocco. To my surprise,...
Southern Utah’s Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks are spectacular, dazzling, stunning… I quickly ran out of adjectives when I visited this April. Each park has dramatic yet different...
It's been a while since we had visited Victoria, British Columbia -- “The Garden City.” The COVID pandemic had caused a gap, but a longer-term barrier was the cessation...
Romania surprises with its Romance language roots. The central-eastern European country is surrounded by Slavic languages in Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine and Moldova, plus Hungary’s Uralic language. Romanians trace descent...
A Balkan country in eastern Europe, Bulgaria boasts history going back to the ancient Thracians, Greeks and Romans. It has the largest number of ancient architectural ruins after Greece...
My wife had a gathering of her extended family in Buffalo, New York. Alaska Airlines just started twice daily service to the Toronto airport. Therefore, we had the unusual...
Our recent European vacation included a visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, for me a profoundly disturbing, thought-provoking,and life-changing experience. It's a hard story to tell, and you may want to just...
Years ago my Norwegian relatives took me on a driving trip from the capital of Oslo through waterfall-laced mountains to the coastal city of Bergen. This is the route...
