We packed our bags and took the tram to Amsterdam's Centraal Station. (Note that "Centraal" is not a typo. The Dutch are blessed with an abundance of vowels and often put pairs of them in places were you'd expect to…
The day started with a great breakfast -- cereal, fruit, yogurt, cheese, bread, pastries, coffee, tea, orange juice and, they made me an omelet on request -- served in a nice backyard patio. As with most European establishments, the breakfast…
Travel to Europe seems to take no time at all. You finish your day in the US, go to sleep on a plane, and when you wake up the next morning you're there. So, when our flight landed in Schipol…
Bryce Canyon National Park is located in southwestern Utah. If you need a nature fix, Bryce is pretty nice. Spoiler Alert: Despite its name, Bryce Canyon is not a canyon, but a collection of giant natural amphitheaters along the eastern…
Native Americans have inhabited the area around the Grand Canyon for about 12,000 years. The first Europeans, soldiers led by García López de Cárdenas, did not see it until 1540. His disastrous failure to find the fabled Seven Cities of…
[This is another very old story, with photos from trips to Cape Hatteras National Seashore in 1978, 1980 and 1981.] Sunset over the Hatteras Island dunes. Cape Hatteras lies in the Outer Banks, a 200-mile-long string of barrier islands that…
State Street starts on the west corner of the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin. It runs west for six blocks where it abuts the bottom of Bascom Hill, the tree-covered glacial drumlin that is sometimes considered "the heart" of the…
I wrote two posts about our 2017 trip to Iceland previously, so you already may have seen a few of these photos. This time, however, I'm focusing on the graffiti and street art that is so abundant in Reykjavik. In…
I haven't traveled in a while, so I dug out some photos from an old trip, a very old -- no -- a very, very old one. From 1977 - 1982, I taught chemistry at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside in…