Anxious to get on the road and put some miles on our new Porsche, Susan and I decided to head to the Willamette Valley AVA for a week to enjoy … [Read more...]

Waiheke Island is one of my favorite places to visit in the world.  Located 40-minutes from downtown Auckland by ferry, Waiheke’s verdant … [Read more...]

A visit to Bavaria in Germany last autumn afforded the opportunity to visit two of King Ludwig's many residences, Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau … [Read more...]

During our Spring 2019 visit to Yosemite, Susan and I had the pleasure of staying in the Ahwahnee Hotel.  Built in 1927 from granite, wood and steel … [Read more...]

Founded in the year 696 as a salt mining and trading city on the banks of the River Salzach, Salzburg has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since … [Read more...]

On a recent visit to Prague, Susan and I took a bus ride three hours south to Cesky Krumlov.  This small town situated in pastoral countryside … [Read more...]

We were fortunate to be in Berlin, Germany during the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall which also coincided with the Festival of … [Read more...]

Susan and I have been to London many times, but never together so we decided to spend a week shopping, site-seeing and attending a few shows and … [Read more...]

Prague in the Czech Republic is one of the most beautiful, romantic and culturally interesting places we’ve visited.  As an economic, political and … [Read more...]

We took off for a week on the Maine coast with the expressed goal of eating our weight in lobster, crab, oysters and clams.  While I’m not sure if we … [Read more...]