I’ve been hard pressed to describe to friends what we did with our time in Napa this year. We relaxed, we visited cousins in Berkeley and cousins in Sonoma County. We considered side trips to Yosemite and to Mendocino, but did neither, because we didn’t think we’d have enough time. We were in Napa to […]
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Museum, Kanazawa, Japan
The modern art museum in Kanazawa didn’t impress me much with its collection, but I ...
Visiting Our Art: Home at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts
What we love to do when we travel–visit museums–we often forget to do here in our former home, Minneapolis (Minnesota). Sure, we were frequent visitors to theaters and art museums and galleries when we lived here, but our short stays these days are mostly consumed by catching up with family, pets, book groups, and doctors. […]
How Mary Stucky Travels: With Purpose
Perhaps more than anyone we know, Mary Stucky travels with purpose. Stucky works as lead journalist and president of Round Earth Media, the company she co-founded. Round Earth, established at a time when major U.S. media organizations were cutting back on their foreign offices, is dedicated to training the next generation of global correspondents, while […]
Budapest Baths
Visiting the baths in Budapest is one of those essential activities on most tourists’ lists, because the baths represent history and culture, recreation and relaxation. The traditional baths and the thermal springs that feed them have been used for hundreds of years, by the Turks and the Romans before them when they occupied this […]
Travel Photo Roulette #74: Competition/Conflict
And the winner is:Shane from The Working Traveller. There were several good photos entered in the competition, but what struck us about this was our own memories of gun shows we’ve been to in the United States, and the fascination that people have with guns of all sorts. Maybe we Americans aren’t so unique in […]
My Day with the TSA
I got to spend nearly an hour with my new TSA pals at the Omaha airport the other day. It’s tempting to blame the TSA for their widely reported incompetence, and I’ll get to that in a moment, but first, I have to take a little time to pull Frontier Airlines up short as well. […]
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