Traveling to India is always a splendid thing.  There are many globetrotters who make it a regular stop, and there are those who make it a once in a lifetime thing, and it’s always a life-changing proposition.  It’s impossible to come here and not be touched in some significant way.  It’s almost as though some [...]

Oh here we go we are off to San Antonio, TX. A buddy we use to work with moved over there earlier this year. We said we would give him to the fall to get settled in and then we would be coming for a visit. Well we have out rooms booked at luxury San [...]

It’s a better day to go to the beaches that are not far from Ibiza. I’m with a handful of people who want to soak up the rays and burn off the alcohol from last nights partying. We found an area around Jet and Bora Bora. Bora was jammed packed and loaded with 20 to [...]

At one time skateboarders were seen as reckless punks, as portrayed in the film about the rise of skateboarding in Venice Beach, California titled “Dogtown and Z-Boys“.   Just as in the movie that documents the careers of some of the greatest California skateboarders of all time, the scene in Cape Town that caught on in [...]

It has been strongly suggested that you have not had the time of your life or can grasp the true meaning of island paradise until you have visited the Balearic Islands. They are located in the Mediterranean Sea off the Coast of Spain and are predominantly known by their four major islands. These are Majorca, [...]

This morning we had a leisure start, the heat of the morning naturally rules and makes it easy for us to just take our time. We went to the rooftop restaurant for breakfast and made an ‘end of the trip’ toast. We opted to continue the lazy morning, so headed back to our room. For [...]

I finally made it to the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont, CA. I know it seems a little obscure but I st could not help but want to go once I heard about it. I have liked silent films since i was a kid when I first saw a Charlie Chaplin film. It [...]

The times they are a changin’, famous line of a great tune from the mind of the legendary folk singer Bob Dylan.  This is something that is being illustrated in an exhibit on Wall Street for the next couple of months.  It is a journey into the famous, and notorious, women who made their way [...]

Not very long ago, Tompkins Square Park and the New York neighborhood of Alphabet City was home to many foreign refugees, many of them German.  It was also the ‘red light district’ of the city as recently as one hundred years ago.  By the 1950′s however the demographics of the neighborhood had changed, as the [...]

We had a great weekend in Irvine, CA. I did not make the selection of where to stay so I thought why Irvine? I am not that familiar with southern California geography, there are so many towns and one runs into another so I always have a hard time keeping them straight. I know where [...]