While I was in Lebanon during the spring, I had a chance to spend a few days in the Beqaa Valley, which holds the treasure of the ruins of Baalbek at its northern end, but holds its other treasure to the southern end, the wines of Lebanon. The wine culture […]
Pauline Frommer comes from the first family of travel guides. Frommer’s guide books have been around longer than almost all of us have been walking this planet and they are the gold standard in guide books around today.
The seven-day festival in Pamplona during the Festival of San Fermin has become, since Ernest Hemingway made it famous in 1925 in The Sun Also Rises, all about the Running of the Bulls. It is a testament to the power of the written word that its current popularity still has […]
I have to say there are a number of truly wonderful things that are coming out of the Ultimate Train Challenge idea that I came up with eight or nine months ago. I get to work with some amazing travel bloggers on one of the first extensive cooperative travel blogging […]
Venice is one of my favorite cities to shoot photos in. The colors are amazing, similar to Cartagena in that respect. The juxtaposition of the water and the buildings and the light and shadows can be breathtaking. And the lines provided by the canals make for great photography sight lines. […]
Just a quick little post of self-reflection, as I sit here in Zagreb, Croatia, waiting for my very first Croatian train to take me to the coast. And a quick side note: I love Croatia. I am seriously considering moving here for 3-4 months in 2012. Aside from New Zealand, […]
So I told ya’ll that I was messing around with some new photo editing software and ideas. I haven’t had any internet for the last few days, I have been fooling around with it some more. Fair warning — these are highly doctored photos, but thought that some of you […]
A couple quick photos from the weekend of running with the bulls in Pamplona, Spain… lots more coming up soon. My good friend Angie actually just beat me to the running of the bulls a few days prior to me, her review can be reached by clicking on that […]
One thing that Canada does completely kick our American asses at is our respective national anthems, at least in my eyes. I am not a huge fan of the Star Spangled Banner — O’ Canada is so much better to my ears.
