Except for our usual summer week on Washington Island, we haven't traveled anywhere in almost two years. With the weather forecast for a warm sunny week, it was time to make an escape! So, we loaded up the car and…
On Washington Island there's a small store -- I don't know its name -- that sells what only can be described as "junk." So, I guess I should just call it the junk store. As you drive from the ferry…
As you would expect to find in many large old European cities, Munich has palaces. The Residenz, on the edge of Old Town in central Munich, is the former royal palace of the Wittelsbach monarchs of Bavaria. It was not…
Sitting only 30 miles from the Alps, Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria. It's Germany's third-largest city behind Berlin and Hamburg. Many consider it to be one of the most livable cities in Europe. Arriving at…
(After a holiday hiatus, this post continues from Walls and Wine.) Following a nice breakfast in Bacharach, we took a short train ride to St. Goar for a day trip. This is another quaint town with half-timbered buildings along the…
Back on the train, we continued our journey south. In Koblenz we transferred to another train, which eventually took us to Bacharach, a town of about 2,000. I wasn't quite sure where our hotel was located, so we stopped an…
I have a new exhibit up at the Fluno Center, 601 University Avenue, Madison, WI. It will be up until the end of the year so please stop by if you're in town! Although he didn’t coin the phrase, Horace Greeley…
Nothing official was scheduled the next morning at the Melia Panama Hotel in Colon. Some of us walked around the grounds with one of our guides to look at flora and fauna that we never see in the Midwest. Others…
We awoke at 5 AM. The night's full moon had not quite set and the previous day's high temperature of 91° F had plunged to an overnight low of 79° F. Our suitcases were ready for the bus at 5:30. …