Category: Travel

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...

Coming home from France

Coming home this time of year is a delight! Blooming rhododendrons frame my house, the irises are in bloom and soon my front door will be framed in a blue cloud of...

90 minutes in paris

We arrived back at Paris Charles deGaulle Airport (CDG) at 3 p.m. to accommodate a travel writer colleague who had a late afternoon flight to Berlin. Writers invited on press trips often...

Gardens in center of France

The marshes surrounding the small city of Bourges formed a barrier that protected early Celt and later Roman settlements from invasion. The vast marshlands inspired fear and superstition since those who entered...

goats of loire

Perhaps it’s the country girl in my heritage, but I loved our visit to a Loire farm where goat cheese was made. The city folks among our group of writers stuck their...

stained glass & asparagus season in Loire

We visited a stained glass maker in Chartres before heading out to Orleans where we took a cooking class. Although the glass maker has been doing it for 30 some years, he...

chartres 1 hour from paris

Chartres, a little more than an hour by train from Paris, is a popular day trip from the city. It’s also become a bedroom community for the city, since it’s in the...

loire like home

It’s been as cool here as early spring in Ohio, with a good dose of rain. Its hasnt dampened the experience though. Flew over on Continental’s new flight with a pilot as...

sorry guys

Being a newbie at this blogging thing, I thought I could no longer blog when the Pillsbury Bake-Off icon was removed from the News-Herald’s Web site. But I got the answer to...