Category: Destinations

Story and Photos Libor Pospisil In Part One of this article, I wrote about how I retraced Caravaggio’s arrival in Rome and his rise

Story and Photos by John Sundsmo. Featured Image: Mt. Fuji viewed from Ohsino Hakkai. Wandering has always been a favorite travel mode for my

Review by Lee Daley. Photographs by Robert Holmes.   Famed photographer Robert Holmes has published PASSAGES a collection of his favorite photographs from the

Story and Photos by Ashok Khanna. Feature Image: Dubrovnik, from Mount Srd, 1452 feet up by cable car. Link to Part Two: Slovenia and

Feature Image: Sunset on the river Arno as viewed from the Ponte Vecchio bridge. Story and Photos by John Sundsmo. Continuing from Part 1,

Story and Photos by John Sundsmo. Feature image: View of Firenze from Boboli Garden. Historic Florence (Firenze), the seat of passionate Renaissance artistic creativity,

Story and Photos by Lee Daley. I first ran into Jimmie Dale Gilmore while on a writing assignment in Cambridge, MA, when a friend

Feature Image: Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay view from Presideo Tunnel Tops. Take the Park’s Cliff Walk for stunning views and for

Story and Photos by Libor Pospisil. Feature Image: Jagmandir Palace on Lake Pichola in Udaipur, the white city In Part One, I viewed tigers

Story and Photos by John Sundsmo. In 1850, Frolic, a sailing ship bound from China to San Francisco with cargo for the Gold Rush,

Story by Carol Canter. (Feature Image: Marin Headlands, Rodeo Beach) Traveling north from San Francisco on Highway 1, one of the world’s most glorious

Review by Lee Daley Welcome to the Redwood Room—an unforgettable San Francisco destination just steps away from downtown Union Square. Whether at the bar,

The Top of the Mark, an iconic landmark, is reopened. Story and Photos by John Sundsmo. Updated March 2, 2023 The Mark Hopkins Hotel

Story and Photos by David A. Laws For most of us, dragons, ghosts, and witches raise goosebumps but once a year. For the citizens

Story by David A. Laws. Images from vintage postcards. “To plunge or not to plunge, that was the question!” – Winston Churchill. Dashing onto

Story and Photos by David A. Laws. In an earlier article,  “Silicon Valley High Tech Tourism: Selfies and Swag,” I reported a lighthearted survey

Story and Photos by John Sundsmo. Travelers to China often tour to Beijing (one of the oldest cities in the world; the Great Wall),

Story and Photos by John Sundsmo. Taking a page from Anthony Bourdain: “Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.” For me,