Seven Reasons to Avoid Travel Planning
When Tom and I start talking about the future, like next month or even next week, we ask ourselves, “Where will we be? What do we want to do?” And … Read more
Kristin Henning
Visiting My Uncle’s Grave: Ardennes American Cemetery
Because it was first a laboratory for identification, Ardennes American Cemetery is unique in providing burial ground for casualties of every major WWII battle, including the Pacific.
The Museum of Alchemy: Prelude to Prague
The elixir for eternal youth and the potions for love and happiness were right here at the Alchemy Museum in Prague all the time.
Seeking Fine Art in Las Vegas
There really is fine art in Vegas, baby, and at least one museum is attracting a steady stream of visitors to its specially curated exhibitions. Currently showing at Bellagio Gallery … Read more
How to Relax in Napa County
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. … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Cold Minnesotans Consider Hawaii
During the recent cold snap here in Minnesota, you could almost feel the surge of travel inquiries for warm weather get-aways and real estate well south of the 42nd parallel. … Read more
How we met Girona architect Rafael Masó
The extra benefits of staying in an apartment in Girona, arranged via Housetrip, surpassed our expectations. The six of us, my husband Tom and his two brothers and their wives, … Read more
Stay and Eat in Barcelona, Girona, and Madrid
This trip to Spain was unusual for us. It was fast, it was pre-planned, and it was with four others, Tom’s two brothers and their wives. Tom and I were … Read more