trip to Cleveland’s past
Nostalgia reigned on a recent day spent touring Cleveland with a group of seniors from Breckenridge Village — many of whom had spent a half century or more living in Northeast Ohio...
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ankle deep in poison ivy
I was so anxious to see the bats fly into the night, that it never occurred to me that open-toed sandals were probably not the best footwear choice for a Geauga County...
Omelet in Alberta
A few blogs back I wrote about the lovely breakfast I enjoyed at the Lake Shore Bed & Breakfast & Spa in Alberta. I sat in Kathy Gette’s living room on the...
driving to Alaska
Last week in Alberta I met the Muellers and Glasscocks who were driving their Honda Goldwing motorcycles more than 5,000 miles to Alaska. It wasn’t hard to spot the folks who belonged...
Smoky Virginia beach
I’m just back from Virginia Beach where the smoky air made me flee even the gorgeous beach. More than 4,000 acres of the Great Dismal Swamp on the North Carolina-Virginia border are...
alberta or Mars
At times it seems I’ve come to Mars instead of Alberta, in Western Canada. I’d been to Calgary, Edmonton, Banff and Lake Louise before and thought I knew the province. But the...
Dinosaurs rule Drumheller
I held a 50 million year old dinosaur bone in my hand yesterday. To think of being able to actually touch something that old boggles my mind. Collector Steve Wolchina grew up...
Dinosaurs in alberta
The Canadian province of Alberta beckons me this week, specifically the CanadianBadlands, east of Calgary. Eons ago it was the final resting place for dinosaurs,which continue to be studied, excavated and preserved....
future of travel
Strategizing for the future of travel is part of the reason I’m here in Amarillo with the Midwest Travel Writers Association. The high price of gas, both for autos and aircraft, is...
amarillo texas: strange place
Perhaps it’s the vast reserves of helium stored underground. Or maybe it’s the 100-degree May temperatures and constant 50 mph winds that send whirling clouds of yellow dust swirling across the empty...
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