March 21, 2026 Our last full day in Guatemala was spent in Antigua, which served as the capital from 1543 to 1773 when the country was par...

  July 24, 2025 After breakfast we picked up Zachary at the military base and then drove to an area with a large open savannah. Zachary, Bob...

  July 23, 2025 We woke up at 6:00 a.m. and ate breakfast at 6:30. Breakfast typically consisted of our choice of eggs, bacon, sausage, fres...

  July 2, 2023 We woke up early on our second day in Tangkahan, had breakfast in the lodge, and headed out on a jungle walk with our local g...

  May 2022 Andrew suggested two more places for us to visit while he and Michaela were at work. The first was the  American Museum of Natura...

  March 27, 2022 I mentioned in a previous post that Cuenca  means "basin" in Spanish. What makes Cuenca a basin are the tall Ande...

March 24, 2022, Morning and Lunch During the night our catamaran left Fernandina Island and returned to Isabela Island, dropping anchor just...

  July 28, 2021 We spent our last day of sightseeing in Upstate New York in Ithaca, home to Cornell University. We started out with a delici...

  July 25, 2021 We rented an Airbnb in Kingston, New York, for a couple of nights. It turned out to be a brand new house built specifically ...

July 24, 2021 We continued to make our way north, farther and farther away from the wonderful craziness of New York City. Our next stop was ...

  July 24, 2021 On our third day in New York, we picked up a car at JFK, thinking that would make it easy to turn it in when it was time to ...

  July 22, 2021 Our son knows I like cemeteries, and I know he likes mushroom hunting, and we figured those two interests could converge. Ol...