Category Making the Most of Travel

Do you have a favorite animal – domestic or wild? If yes, what animal connects with you? For me it’s elephants. It started when I was kid. I had a book called “The Elephant’s Dilemma”, published in 1945. The little…

Summer may be the biggest vacation season, but each January flocks of snowbirds take to the road and sky, heading to warmer climates for extended winter getaways. Florida is the top destination in the U.S. This year the state of…

Queen Eilzabeth II was only four years younger than my dad. When I think of her that way it puts her life in a whole new perspective for me. Today is her funeral. For the past 10 days the TV…

If you don’t live in the deep south, by mid September there is starting to be a crispness to the air. Days bring plenty of welcomed mild temperatures without any of summer’s humidity. There are still butterflies flitting around the…

I love being at the Chautauqua Institute at Chautauqua, New York. A few years ago my husband and I heard Arthur C. Brooks – past president of the American Enterprise Institute, social scientist, and noted author – speak to a…

At the Northeast entrance to Yellowstone National Park, on the Wyoming and Montana border, you can get on route 212 and head north into Montana on the Beartooth Highway. Years ago, CBS correspondent Charles Kuralt called The Beartooth “America’s most…

Would you be willing to sell everything you have – your home, cars, furniture – and live on a cruise ship? It’s a small but growing trend as a lifestyle that lets you see the world. But its not the typical…

When it comes to old buildings, how much of the past should we preserve? How important is it to preserve and restore historic public buildings and private homes? What do we have to gain from reclaiming and preserving the past?…

In the fall of 2019 National Geographic sent me their 2020 Expeditions Travel Catalog. I immediately read it cover to cover and found a trip that sounded fascinating. It was a 24-day globe-trotting trip in October that included 15 UNESCO…

If Covid hadn’t happened I would be in Alaska right now. My husband and I have postponed the 5-week trip that would take us through northern Michigan and Wisconsin into central and western Canada to meet up with an Alaska…