The day after all that rain, the weather was beautiful as we wheeled our luggage to the canal for a water taxi to the train station. Such...

We started the first full day in Venice by going down our alley to a little sandwich shop to buy our breakfast of meats, cheeses, rolls,...

We arrived in Venice this morning with a huge sigh of relief and delight. Our luggage made it!  It was the FIRST piece out! This is a...

While this trip started with lots of excitement and anticipation, it quickly transformed into a travel nightmare. It’s as if we entered a...

Guardare fuori Italia …. arriviamo! We are very excited about this trip.  Foremost, Italy has a very special meaning in our family....

In planning this trip, I looked for a way to make it a new experience, even though we had visited most of the places before. With the...

Finishing up our stay in Santa Fe, Marcel and Sandi headed back home to Utah, while we visited the Georgia O’Keefe Museum. When we...

As a change of pace, today we are driving north for about an hour to visit Los Alamos National Laboratory, and if time permits, Bandelier...

Exploring the center of old Santa Fe was today’s excursion.  A very charming town with many art galleries and museums.  It was a Spanish...

Our next destination – north and at a higher altitude – is Santa Fe.  We encountered yet another type of weather – Snow!  It was not...

We headed back over the Sacramento Mountain range, through the Lincoln National Forest and Cloudcroft on our way to our next stop: ...

As a change of pace, I’m going to focus on the three S’s – Sand, Space, and Sun.  Our base camp is in a nicely situated state park, just...

Our next segment is to travel from Arizona to New Mexico.  This is a long travel day covering more than 400 miles, between Kartchner and...

Today’s agenda is to visit Bisbee and Tombstone.   We drive through landscape which was once green grassland but is now mostly barren,...

It was a short-drive day, as we moved to Cochise County in the southeastern corner of Arizona.  Our campsite is at Kartchner Caverns...

Our campsite in McDowell Nature Preserve is beautifully situated.  Very quiet.  We had a mini-reunion with Roselie’s brother Carmine and...

Today we started our three-day journey to reach El Norte (Phoenix, AZ), with overnight stops in Tehachapi, CA and Kingman, AZ.  As we...

It’s Spring!  It’s the time of year we enjoy getting out into nature – no snow, no crowds, everything is fresh and reborn.  We are...

It’s a gray day as we leave Dromoland Castle on our four-hour drive to Dublin Airport. The sky is gray, and the clouds are weeping. Heavy...

Martin arrived to pick us up and delivered today’s newspaper headline: “The 2016 Rising!” It is implying that the election is as...