TRAVEL ARTICLES
WHAT HAS HOLES BUT STILL HOLDS WATER?
It created one of the biggest industries of the 20th century and built what is today the most vibrant Greek community in the United States.
What is it? ...
ASIA MINOR ENTERS THE MAJOR LEAGUES
Known in earlier times as Anatolia and Asia Minor, Turkey is a land that has witnessed the rise and fall of so many great civilizations it has inherited...
ISLAND OF RAINBOWS
Venice is a city built on a group of small islands, separated by picturesque serpentine canals linked by over 400 bridges. Some of these islands are better known than others...
MOROCCO'S LEGENDARY LA MAMOUNIA HOTEL REOPENS
Since it first opened its doors in 1923, La Mamounia has maintained its position as one of the world’s most iconic hotels. After three years of renovations...
BEHIND THE BAMBOO CURTAIN
Mystery is what makes China one of the most alluring travel destinations in the world. For centuries, tales of a vast and distant land...
THE GOLDEN AGE OF TRAVEL
Exactly eighty years ago in June of 1939, a Boeing 314 PanAm airboat named the Yankee Clipper flew into history successfully completing the world’s first commercial trans-Atlantic flight...
IMPRESSIONS OF INDIA
I’m writing this sitting at a small, round table under an open-sided teak pavilion on the edge of the vast expanse of Lake Kumarakom...
MEALS ON WHEELS
I never thought I’d sit in a bathtub while traveling at 60 mph. But I did, while sitting in an Art Deco bathroom with marble tiles and gold fittings on a train...
TALE OF THE DRAGON
It was in China that I suffered what I thought was a stroke. That was frightening enough, but where we were made it even more disturbing...
LOST CITY OF THE INCAS
It was declared a Peruvian Historical Sanctuary in 1981, a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1983, and in 2007, Machu Picchu was voted one of the New Seven Wonders of the World...
HIDDEN GOLD IN ANCIENT GREECE
It was an unexpected find. A vineyard producing world-class wines in the Western Peloponnese of Greece on the plateau of the Ichthis peninsula.
THE ROCKY MOUNTAINEER
The Rocky Mountaineer has been awarded the prestigious World Travel Award as The World’s Leading Travel Experience by Train --multiple times.
CARIBBEAN COOL AT CHIC LA SAMANNA
La Samanna is a Caribbean luxury resort on the half-French, half-Dutch island of St. Martin (Sint Maarten) perched above a two-mile stretch...
A SOUTH AMERICA ADVENTURE -2022
In addition to being a record of a memorable journey for us, the book / PDF that you will view is for our good friend Livio Ferrari..... “bajá un cambio!”
SOUTH AMERICA - A LAND OF SUPERLATIVES
It seemed we were never far from the snow-capped Andes. The highest mountains outside Asia, they gloriously dominate.....
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF SAINTS AND SINNERS
Two and a half hours drive northeast of Rome are the magnificent hilltop towns of Umbria. Towns that offer sweeping...
BARGING THROUGH 800 YEARS OF HISTORY
We are in the region of Champagne in northeast France at Hautvilliers the birthplace of Dom Perignon...