This famous statue stands on the corner of Lexington Green outside of Boston. Here the minutemen first stood up to the regulars (people on both sides considered themselves British) and some died [...]

I just got word that my Uncle Bob in Australia died today. This picture is from our trip to Australia where we went at part to see my uncle. It was a [...]

Every year there is a bike race by some of Boston’s biggest landmarks like the Old State House called the Mayor’s Cup 2010. I liked the photos I took of the event [...]

Interstate 80 can be a very boring road. To  underline that fact the highway has big orange signs near the Bonneville salt flats in Utah that advise on the dangers of falling [...]

For those of you who have not been in a landing craft before this is the interior of a vehicle from the Boston Duck Tours. If you look close on the graffiti [...]

There is a fine line between determined and crazy and it occurred to me that I might have crossed that line a while back. All of the other kayakers had either climbed [...]

The Granary Burial Yard in Boston is the final resting place for several famous Bostonians such as Patrick Henry, Sam Adams and in this photo Paul Revere (on the left). The pub [...]

The Amateur Traveler talks to Jessica Spiegel of BootsNAll’s Italy blog “Why Go Italy” and the Eye on Italy podcast about one of her favorite cities in Italy: Milan. Jessica tells us [...]

I had a chance last weekend to visit the JFK Presidential Library in Boston, Massachusetts. Like President Kennedy the library makes wonderful use of video to tell the story of the dynamic [...]

I finally had a chance last Sunday to take a tour with Duck Tours. My kids rode this when they were at a camp in Boston years ago. Originally Duck Tours used [...]