Windsor Castle is not only associated with the current royal family, the house of Windsor, in the United Kingdom, but their family name came from the castle. They changed the family name [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Dan Stromberg about his recent trip to Mali. Mali is a destination so remote that Dan says “I couldn’t imagine myself being here when I was there”. [...]

The canons outside the Maritime Museum hint at its original purpose as a fortress defending the the old Royal Navy Dockyard. The main structure on the left is the Commissioner’s House which [...]

The Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta has one of the finest collections of dinosaurs that I have seen. It is worth the couple of hours drive out into the middle of [...]

This church dedicated to Saint John the Baptist is located in the quiet and beautiful suburb of Mexico City known as Coyoacan. This church was built on land donated by the Spanish [...]

I just had a nice phone call with my wife. This is not particularly unusual except that I am in New Zealand, she is in the USA, I was calling for free, [...]

Another picture from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City of a statue of an archer in one of the wonderful interior courtyards of the museum.

This week’s guest is Johnny Jet. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] This Week’s News: United flight: ‘If you didn’t have your seatbelt on, you got hurt’ Man Arrested Smuggling 18 [...]

See the tiny dump truck in the lower right of this picture. That dump truck has tires that are 8 feet (2.5 meters) tall. You are looking at the Martha open pit [...]

Te Puia in Rotorua is an area where you can see some of the geothermal activity in the Rotorua area as well as Moari cultural presentations. This Maori “warrrior” is trying to [...]