My good friend Tom is the consummate adventurer completing over 90 cycling, multi-adventure, and walking tours on all seven continents. He sends out his trip itineraries over a year in advance. I saw he had reserved a Butterfield & Robinson Sri Lanka bike tour with good friend Jennie, and…
London’s Victoria & Albert Museum never fails to amaze! The museum has the world’s largest collection of applied arts, decorative arts, and design with over 2.8 million objects in the permanent collection. This has always been one of my very favorite museums in the world…
Denver friends heard we were visiting London this past September and told us,…”We will meet you there and show you…our London”. They visit London 4-5 times a year and Mary went to the London School of Economics so we thought…”What…
2024 was an amazing combination of wonderful moments with family and friends, new adventures, a little sadness…but much love. I grabbed at life knowing the importance of each precious nanosecond. I’ll share a few of my 2024 favorites photos with text…And some thoughts on…
Marla and I visited Prague in 2006 and we were overdue for a return visit. The trip coordinated perfectly with a river cruise scheduled on the Danube a few days later. Prague is a gorgeous, unique city full of fascinating history. The photo was taken at the Lennon Wall which…
We were totally enchanted by our first visit to the perched village of Gorbio, high above Menton. A beautiful restaurant caught my eye on the main town square, Place de la Republique. It was closed so Marla and I said we would try it on our next visit. It took…
Let me be totally honest…I really can’t wrap my brain around a BIG BIRTHDAY like this! The years have sped by so quickly. As with anyone there has been the occasional zig and zags, high mountains to climb, and a few rivers to swim without drowning…
The next stop on our exciting Southeast Asia adventure with our grandsons was Cambodia. We flew on a prop airplane from Bangkok to Siem Reap by Bangkok Airways. Our last trip to this fascinating country was in 1997 and I must say things have definitely changed! The photo above is…
Have you ever felt impelled to revisit a place which was once very important in your life? While in Chiang Mai during the July trip to Southeast Asia with grandsons, we hired a driver to take us to Hang Dong and Baan Tawai Village, where we spent over 20 years…
Sometimes it is fun as well as interesting to look at things up close. It is easy to miss the beauty of “artifacts & design & decorative curiosities” when only looking at the large view. Let us take a closer look and see things in a new way…