I’ve planned to go to the Cherry Blossom Festival in Washington D.C. but was kept away by fear of crowds. In the end, I had a delightful day for all my worries.

I am a great traveler but an awful list-maker.  Knowing this,  I jumped at the chance to review this iphone app which, I hoped, would make me better at planning and packing [...]

The description of  ”Echoes of the Earth“;  Two women find a surprising connection between the world’s oldest stones and our young human race, didn’t exactly have me on the edge of my [...]

The St. Louis Basilica is a beautiful church decorated completely with mosaic tiles. I made a visit while in St Louis and specifically included this in my itinerary. It was breathtaking. It’s [...]

The third is of Meteora in Greece and one of the monasteries in the mountains. I was amazed that they are so high but also that there are no roads leading directly [...]

The is a view from Santorini with the iconic blue domed houses. I ran up and down alleys to get a shot other than the same one every photographer takes. The aisles [...]

The photo was taken in Athens at the tomb of the unknown soldier at Syntagma Square. The soldiers only dress in traditional uniform on Sundays so it was a treat to see [...]

In “A Beach Less Traveled“, John Berglund tells the story of picking up his roots and moving them to St. Maarten, a tiny island split between French and Dutch rule. His dream [...]

This is the colossus of Memphis, a statue of Rameses II lying down inside a museum built for it. The guy in the photo is the caretaker, who was cracking jokes from [...]

This is the aisle of St John the Divine church in New York City. I had wanted visit St. John’s for a year, which is billed as the largest Gothic Cathedral in [...]