For our last blog about South Korea I want to write about a variety of places and stores. First is where we spent our last morning since our flight was…
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To pick up from the last blog, we are on a subway heading north to Seoul with our luggage in tow. We chose to spend our last night in South…
Yesterday I wrote how we took the subway up to Seoul from my friend’s place on the Air Force base south of the metro area. Well it turns out is…
Now that we were back at my friends house south of Seoul it was time to to go up and check out this fascinating and humongous city…..but the question is…
Lily and I made it back to the base my college room-mate and his family are stationed at in order to visit the DMZ (Demilitarize Zone), which was high on…
On our way back from a side trip to Gyeongju in South Korea, we took a couple trains and buses to the Baekje Historic Areas. It is located in the…
The last of three World Heritage Sites we saw near Gyeongju, a town in the southeast part of South Korea was the Bulguksa Temple & Seokguram Grotto. Seokguram Grotto and…
Last blog I wrote how we had traveled by train to Gyeongju in the southeast part of South Korea. As soon as we got there we took a bus up…
As you read in the last post, Lily and I head out for a South Korean adventure after spending a couple days with my college roommate and his family. To…
A few weeks ago Lily and I got back from visiting my college roommate in South Korea. He and his family are stationed there for a couple years and we…
Photo by Nick Karvounis on Unsplash Portugal is a great destination for a relaxing holiday. With its mild climate, miles of sandy beaches and continental Europe’s furthest south-west point, the…
Did you follow our adventure as we cruised the Dominican Republic? Lily posted some great entries on Instagram and Facebook, so everyone could follow along. She has been doing the…
{I wrote an article about cruising the Dominican Republic that I am going to submit to several magazines to see if they are intersted in publishing it. Before I do…
{I wrote an article about cruising the Dominican Republic that I am going to submit to several magazines to see if they are interested in publishing it. Before I do that…
{I wrote an article about cruising the Dominican Republic that I am going to submit to several magazines to see if they are interested in publishing it. Before I do…
I had a bunch of video clips that I put together for various social media applications that we ended up not using and I thought it would be a shame…
Did you follow our adventure as we cruised the south coast of Puerto Rico? Lily posted so great entries on Instagram and Facebook, so everyone could follow along. She has…
I found a very seldom visited place on the south coast of St John in the US Virgin Islands. To get to it you need to hike from the bridge…
For the last 11 years I have run crewed charters aboard Guiding Light, a Lagoon 410, in the Virgin Islands with several years down in the Leeward and Windward Islands….
I wrote an article about a DIY project I completed last year where I made a new cover board for the navigation station. I am going to submit it to…
It’s no question: biking is booming. From the increase of bike sharing programs in urban areas to the rising popularity of biking during the pandemic, people are two-wheeling more than…
Last month Lily and I left the Virgin Islands to start our westward bound adventure. Our first stop was in Puerto Rico to pick up her daughters who flew in…
The Oaxaca Valley was settled by the Zapotec around 900-1000 BC and over the centuries developed a hierarchical society governed by elites. While the valley was relatively isolated, the Zapotec…
Yugal is an pre-Columbian town near the current city of Oaxaca, Mexico. Yagul began as a settlement around 500 BC, but the city really began to prosper after the decline…
Monte Albán is a large pre-Columbian near Oaxaca, Mexico. Monte Albán is situated atop an artificially leveled ridge and has an elevation of about 6,400 ft above sea level and…
The Zapotec and Mixtec peoples settled in the Oaxaca valley thousands of years before the Spanish arrived. I will talk more about them in the next blog and video when…
Tlacotalpan is a town in the Mexican state of Veracruz that was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998 due to its architecture and colonial-era layout. The town…
Sumidero Canyon is a deep natural canyon located in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas. The canyon’s creation began around the same time as the Grand Canyon, by a crack…
San Cristóbal de las Casas (meaning The Houses of Saint Christopher) was established in 1528 as a Spanish Military fort and is located in the Central Highlands region of the…