We’ve stayed at many hotels in Singapore over the years, but the Marina Bay Sands is without question the most exciting and interesting! This amazing structure was designed by Boston architects Safdie Architects. We stayed here with our grandchildren Paxton and Logan in 2019 and it was Vaughan…
2023 was an amazing year of wonderful experiences near and far. I love looking at the past year and deciding on my favorite 2023 photos. Here is my 2023 “Favorites Album.” It’s really difficult to pick my very favorite but this July photo of Marla, me…
After lunch our driver drove us to Elephant Eco Valley an hour north of Chiang Mai to visit the elepants. Everyone was excited to see how they live in this unique protected environment. We climbed into the truck and headed up the bumpy dirt road. Elephant Eco Valley is a…
Chiang Mai was one our our prime furniture/accessory/antique sourcing areas for many years when Marla and I had our business. Only an hour flight north of hyperactive Bangkok, it has an unique old city charm with walls and moats and hundreds of beautiful and often elaborate Buddhist temples…
The nice thing about Bangkok hotels on the Chao Phraya River is that their boats take you places, most importantly, Central Pier (Sathorn), where you can walk to the Saphan Taksin station for the air conditioned BTS Skytrain close by. Our hotel boat was running about every 20 minutes so…
There is something very exciting when a grandchild goes away to college and selfishly, a little sad. Logan will be heading west for school later this summer. I remember how we felt when both of our girls went away to college. It was the start of a new beginning. The…
Years ago I started what our family called, the “9-year-old trip”. The idea was to immerse our grandchildren in the favorite places, family, and history of my side of the family in the San Francisco Bay Area. When my Mom was alive she was a big…
We visited our grandson Paxton at Boston College in April. It was our second out of state trip since vaccination, and we were really excited to see him. We all were secretly hoping he would be a little closer to home but Paxton received a coveted 4 year Gabelli Presidential…
I am a member of the “Reluctant Travelers Club,” a large group, infected with a huge dose of wanderlust, who dream of traveling again… when it is safer. Obviously, some among us are less risk-averse and are happily wayfaring. We are not a member of this…
All of us have special places which bring to mind very personal memories. The “Campuhan Ridge Walk trail” in Ubud, Bali is such a place for me. Marla and I have enjoyed the trail many times over the years and on three occasions we brought Wesco Fabrics’…