Have you ever experienced a moment of appreciation from afar? I waited to cross Wisconsin Avenue at what I consider the Rodeo Drive of...

I enjoy outlandish. For years, I attended business events in Las Vegas. Sin city offers plenty of conference space for large gatherings...

Museums often are classically styled boxes with little variation whether they house art or animals. Then there are museums whose...

“Does anyone live here?” It’s a common refrain from tourists. More like a Disney park with well-crafted antiquities than a real city, one...

I see thousands of new faces when I travel, but in the blend of humanity passing by, one person might spark a curious notion. What is...

I see thousands of new faces when I travel, but in the blend of humanity passing by, one person might spark a curious notion. What is...

I see thousands of new faces when I travel, but in the blend of humanity passing by, one person might spark a curious notion. What is their

Three points I’ll make about Antigua: First, you must pronounce it right. It’s as if the ‘u’ was not there: An – tig’ –a. My first...

What more can be written about Paris that has not already been written? City of Lights, of Love, of the Lost Generation of Stein,...

It was a special occasion calling for a special family gathering. To celebrate both Christmas and Ellen’s birthday, which occurs only...

Looking back on trips to warm places: Portofino A small fishing village caressed by villas of the rich and famous, Portofino is a seaside...

In Rome, we dined in Flávio al Velavevodetto set into the mountain of pottery refuse from which the area of Testaccio draws its name....

Renaissance palaces from the peak of power of a small republic, now museums of that age and office buildings for banks, the power elite...

Ellen said it when the plane approached Albuquerque, "It seems like another country." The land is foreign to Easterners like us where the...

Travel inspires the writer. I'm sharing passages from my notebook written while on the road. The first is from my most recent trip to...