Traveling with children takes a bit of planning.  From finding kid friendly restaurants that also appeal to the adults, to locating kid friendly hotels, there are just some things that need to be considered.  In Boston, this is not a problem.  There are many restaurants in the various neighborhoods that cater to the palates of [...]

Three days here, and after all the talk about how we were going to find out how the rest of the world thinks about music, all we’ve talked about is curry.  My friends are convinced that the best Indian restaurant in Singapore is this one, and it’s because of their curries.  I am arguing that [...]

The Empire State Building, the Statue of Liberty, Central Park — these iconic sights of New York City are well worth a visit for any traveler; however, if you want to go a bit deeper, see a little more, then there’s some pretty great places that most tourists know about only because they’ve stumbled across [...]

The big universities bring many people to Bloomington each year. There are also some large companies that bring people in for work related activities. What does one do when there are no school or work events going on. You are sitting in your hotel accommodations in Bloomington wondering what to do with a day off. [...]

Fort Wayne holds a special place in the hearts of those who’ve spent any time here.  This is one of those rare midwestern cities that’s had to live under the shadow of the Norman Rockwell image of what a town was supposed to be like.  The difficult part for most of these towns, is that [...]

Two Panamas are in the world, one lies at its center, the thinnest part of the connecting land between North and South America, home of Panama City and the Panama Canal, one of the great engineering achievements of the early Twentieth Century.  The other Panama rests a bit higher on the globe, also on a [...]

My parents and even some of my friends told me I was pipe dreaming when I mentioned that I might want to pursue a career in acting. And mind you, I know that this is not a common ambition, nor is it usually encouraged by parents and for obvious reasons. Heck even in Elizabethan times [...]

I had been wanting to scuba dive for many years, for as long as I could remember and last year my sister surprised me with a trip to Miami.  Luxury hotels dot the beaches along the coast of Miami, and my sister found us the perfect one, one that was [...]

We really enjoyed our time in Miami, but it was time to leave and head for the airport to make the final leg of our trip: New York City! The flight was a little longer than we expected it to be, and the airline we were on (AA) didn’t have an in-flight movie for us [...]

When I was a kid, traveling with my parents somewhere between Tucson and El Paso, I saw sign after sign proclaiming a roadside attraction known only as The Thing.  The signs variously said: The Thing?  What is it?  Don’t Miss The Thing, Three Miles Until The Thing!  I begged my parents to pull over and [...]