From Here to There

April 16-23, 2016. Ah, yes. Venice! A city surrounded by (and surrounding) nothing but water. So much grand beauty and such an expansive history crammed into one small-sized city!   First off, let me reinforce what every guide book will tell you: Venice is entirely walkable. I found myself walking for only a few minutes…

April 11-13, 2016. Up before dawn on April 11 to drive into Malaga and return my rental car (surprisingly, no fines from my Granada adventure). Grabbed a coffee and caught the 8 a.m. train north. Changed trains in Madrid. By the time I arrived at the Barcelona Sants train station I was tired and my…

(Sorry, but there are no photos in this post) April, 2016. In my youth, I spent several summer vacations at my grandparents cabin in the Gallatin Valley south of Bozeman, Montana. If I went alone, or with my friend Kris, I usually traveled by train. I loved that adventure, and still think it’s be best…

April 9, 2016.  Another excursion, but this time I landed on an altogether different continent as I embarked on a guided tour of Tangier, Morroco. With only 11 of us on this excursion we had a much smaller group than the Cordoba trip (there were at least 50 in that group), but it was still…