This past week (summer 2014), I had the great good fortune to participate in a guided tour of the current exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum on Fifth Avenue in New York. The show is “Italian Futurism, 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe.” I was part of a press group, and our narrator
On previous trips to Kenya, my game viewing was confined to national parks and national game reserves. Early this summer (2014), I returned with a press group. We did some of our game viewing in the Maasai Mara National Reserve and Amboseli National Park, but we did more of it
This summer (2014), I watched two impalas butt heads while another closely guarded his harem, giraffes munch in the treetops, wildebeests run across a river by the hundreds, a young orphaned elephant drink milk from a bottle and sleepy lions yawn so broadly you could count their teeth. And one
No one wants a long layover or a long wait for a flight anywhere for any reason. However, my recent several spare hours at the Incheon International Airport in Seoul, Korea, were about as good as a long wait gets. With time to kill, I stumbled onto something called the
Cherry blossoms are always a winning sight, but they were especially enchanting this spring when, with a couple of friends, I spent a weekend in Washington, in 2014, during the city’s two-week National Cherry Blossom Festival. We went into full tourist mode, watching the National Cherry Blossom Festival Parade (on
Rex Fritschi is a long-time travel agent, now based in Wisconsin. But he was born in Switzerland and he occasionally returns to the homeland. He called me after a recent trip to discuss prices, meaning high prices. Mind you, he knew about the prices — after all, he is an
Asgaard Farm & Dairy in New York’s Adirondack Mountains is pretty picky about the products it will sell. Caitlin Aherne (who makes caramels — and soap — from goat’s milk at the farm in Au Sable Forks, N.Y.) said the proprietors recently fed an entire batch of below-standard goat cheese
I did a lot of research about the Atacama, the world’s driest desert, for my book of travel trivia, but nothing beats seeing the place — which I finally was able to do when visiting Chile in 2012. My press group saw a wide range of “wondersome” natural attractions as
I have found the best-ever chocolate chip cookies. That is my opinion after a three-hour walking tour in New York’s Greenwich Village operated by Foods of New York Tours. Those cookies, especially good when warm from the oven, can be had at Milk and Cookies (19 Commerce St). Our tour
I write this in the wake of the annual Crow Fair, held in Crow Agency on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana. The fair site is often called the “teepee capital of the world” because so many of the cone-shaped tents dot the grounds. Part of the time, I was
