USA | Monday, 9 Sep 2024 | Views [96]
SEEING RELATIVES IS ONLY PART of the plan on our Grand Tour and when it comes to Connie’s family there is still much to be discovered. Now that Ron, the family genealogist, is hors de combat we have to go to the horse’s mouth for the stories.... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 3 Sep 2024 | Views [76]
CONSIDERING EVERYONE’S AGE, “Farewell Tour” seemed a bit too fatalistic. So “Grand Tour” it is—2½ months and a few thousand miles driving East then South to visit with friends and family. With the schedules ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 1 Sep 2024 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Saturday, 3 Aug 2024 | Views [91]
THEY SIT FROZEN IN TIME, WAITING FOR A TRAIN that has left the station for the last time. A sailor and a soldier ready to ship out. A young girl waiting as Mom buys their tickets. A couple saying good-bye after a 3-day pass. The porter helping a family ... Read more >
USA | Thursday, 1 Aug 2024 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Saturday, 6 Jul 2024 | Views [130]
IT HAS BEEN NEARLY 15 YEARS since we visited Colorado ski country—each year we promise to make the trip but keep putting it off. But Houstonian friends Greg and Laura were in town on grandparent duty and a day in the mountains seemed like a good ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 22 Jun 2024 | Views [141]
YOU DON’T HAVE TO TRAVEL TO HOLLYWOOD to see the World Premier of a film—you don’t even need to dress up! Yesterday we attended the World Premier of T.REX in 3-D right here at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science and not even ... Read more >
USA | Wednesday, 12 Jun 2024 | Views [137]
WE HAVE BEEN BACK IN COLORADO FOR exactly a month—and, boy, have we been busy. We got much needed haircuts and retrieved some essentials from storage even before we checked in to our latest AirBnB, our fifth “same-but-different”... Read more >
USA | Friday, 17 May 2024 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Thursday, 16 May 2024 | Photo Gallery
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USA | Saturday, 11 May 2024 | Views [132]
AFTER SIXTEEN DAYS AT SEA, THE GOOD SHIP Royal Princess arrived in Whittier, AK yesterday—East to Alaska, not North. As cruises go this one was pretty blah. It began with a last minute change of berths negating the carefully chosen location of ... Read more >
JAPAN | Friday, 26 Apr 2024 | Views [115]
IT’S EASY FOR “GAIJIN” LIKE US to confuse Kinkaku-ji and Ginkaku-ji—SpellCheck is having problems, too. We fondly remember autumn reflections of the Golden Pavilion, Kinkaku-ji, from our visit ten years ago, not even realizing ... Read more >
JAPAN | Wednesday, 24 Apr 2024 | Views [140]
WE HAD ALREADY SEEN THE “BESTEST.” Now we’ve seen the “mostest.” Torii , that is—those bright red gates that mark the gateway between the human and sacred worlds in the Shinto religion.
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JAPAN | Tuesday, 23 Apr 2024 | Views [178]
DECIDING TO RE-VISIT KYOTO WAS A NO-BRAINER. We have a few days to kill before we sail from Yokohama, Japan is one of our favorite countries and there are a few things we missed in Kyoto in 2014. KABIN Taka isn’t as convenient to public transportation ... Read more >
JAPAN | Monday, 22 Apr 2024 | Photo Gallery
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SOUTH KOREA | Saturday, 20 Apr 2024 | Views [125]
A RAINY SATURDAY SEEMED LIKE THE PERFECT time to visit an art museum and the Leeum Samsung seemed like the perfect museum. Finding it required some new metro navigation and a bit of luck at the end of the line but everything worked out fine. The museum ... Read more >
SOUTH KOREA | Thursday, 18 Apr 2024 | Views [133]
SINCE A VISA FOR NORTH KOREA IS OUT of the question, I would have to settle for a peek into North Korea across the the D e m ilitarized Z one. Connie, who had already visited to the DMZ as part of a 1998 official military mission, came along for the ... Read more >
SOUTH KOREA | Wednesday, 17 Apr 2024 | Views [150]
IT WAS RAINING MONDAY WHEN WE LEFT DAEGU. Through the rain-streaked windows of our “bullet” train forested hillsides alternated with towering apartment blocks as we chugged through unknown cities on our way to Seoul. It was still raining ... Read more >
SOUTH KOREA | Monday, 15 Apr 2024 | Photo Gallery
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SOUTH KOREA | Saturday, 13 Apr 2024 | Views [212]
SELECTING A HOTEL IN A FOREIGN CITY, especially an Asian city, is a crap-shoot—even with Booking.com. We were lucky with Hotel Palace in Gyeongju and we really hit the Jackpot here in Daegu. Not only did we get a great rate, Rivertain Hotel comes ... Read more >
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