Travel Log
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
On Travel and Its Importance To You
"Someone hauled that wood up here." That was one key point of discussion when our family stood atop the Kofel, a small, but steep granite mountain on the west side of Oberammergau in the Ammergauer Alps of Germany. You don't need to be an experienced mountaineer to [...]
Cultural Debris Excursion to Genoa
Friends, Alan Cornett, host of the Cultural Debris Podcast is joining me to host a Cultural Debris Excursion to Genoa in Autumn 2022. This is a small group (6 guests plus the two hosts), highly curated excursion that will explore the cultural debris of Genoa, Italy. This is a nearly [...]
Genoa – A Gem Hiding Out in the Open
If you’re looking for a special place to take a special get-away, away from crowds of tourists and with few Americans, a lovely coast, mountains and the most enchanting city center, then Genoa is for you. With a culture that is at once Italian and deeply unique, Liguria’s [...]
Istanbul – East Meets West
Walking down a rainy Istiklal in December with the old school streetcars passing seeming to flow through the crowded avenue made me feel like I was in a film noir. Dark, yet alive. Bustling street, yet alone. A real and very present air of mystery and not something made [...]
Nice – Heart of the Riviera; Heart of History
We watched Cary Grant and Grace Kelly in To Catch a Thief, recently. Hitchcock's delightfully light and masterful work set in Nice, France, made me long to return to that stretch of the Cote d'Azure, or French Riviera. What a lovely place to visit. To see the mingling of Roman [...]
Serbia – Crossroads of 4 Empires over 8 Millennia
There's popular places like Paris, which, if you were unlucky enough to have bought tickets to visit this December, would find you gridlocked due to a [...]
