July 6, 2018 - It’s 1680 and you are a sailor on some god awful ship cooped up with a lot of testosterone fueled guys and some very...

July 5, 2018 - In 1819 Bertel Thorvaldsen was at the height of his fame. The Danish born artist and sculptor had lived his early years in...

July 2, 2018 - Our little schooner is docked at Stockholm Sweden. We are only scheduled to be here for the morning, so not nearly enough...

July 1, 2018 - We visited Helsinki Finland today for a short visit. We wanted to find this place because of a recommendation is ‘Atlas...

June 30, 2018 - As we finish our time in St Petersburg, why not go out with a bang. When Peter the Great, the son of Pete ‘the Mostly...

April 12 2019 - When traveling, trying to resist eating out at great restaurants is hard. Yet, if you want to afford to travel, you...

April 11, 2019 - Like many things on the 'Road to Bali' I came across this pearl by accident. I was not looking for it. I was doing...

April 11, 2019 - I am going through my storage disks and deleting some of my tons of photos. I came across these shots from 2004 of...

April 11, 2018 - Another great talk from Rick Steves.

April 11, 2019 - As we have travel the 'Road to Bali' these past two years, travel has changed for us considerably. At first, like most...

June 30, 2018 - Yesterday we explored what has proven to be a highlight of this episode, St Petersburg. The city truly lives up to the...

June 28, 2018 - This is the Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral. It dominates the upper part if the old City of Tallinn Estonia....

April 10, 2017 - I woke up this morning and read the news only to find this photo. This is the first actual image of a Black Hole in a...

June 28, 2018 - We spent yesterday at sea. The weather continues to be very pleasant and the Baltic Sea has been as smooth as a lake. I...

June 26, 2018 - This is an astronomical clock behind the main alter in St Mary’s Cathedral in Rostock Germany. It tells the hour, the...

June 25, 2018 - We are at sea today so I will not have a chance to post so I will put this up tomorrow. This trip involved a lot of...

June 24, 2018 - We leave the excessively expensive city of Oslo tonight by ship. The apartments in the picture below are some of the most...

June 23, 2018 - She writes, “Norway lives up to it’s reputation. A country with a population of five million people that seem to have...

June 23, 2018 - We needed to get to Oslo, the capital of Norway. Traveling from Flam by train will take us over the mountains thru some...

Friday August 21, 2018 - Level 1 - It was Colleen’s idea to go. Her brother Curtis and his husband Rusty have a cabin in the woods of...