The First Annual Playboy Jazz Cruise
Click Marcus for the Next Jazz Cruise. The Marcus Miller Band jams on the High Seas. It was chart topper talent on the first annual Playboy Jazz Cruise in January, 2009, and the 24th full … Continue reading →
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Cycads and Bromeliads in Cape Town, South Africa
Proteas and Bouquets — wine bouquets that is! Kirstenbosch was the estate of Cecil Rhodes. I had a wonderful afternoon ambling through the renowned Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden, set below the eastern slopes of Table Mountain in … Continue reading →
Koz It’s Kool to Kruise With Jazz
Click photo for the next Smooth Jazz Cruise. Even though the stabilizers of Holland America’s Westerdam kept the cruise liner smooth while sailing the eastern Caribbean, the ship was still swaying during the 2008 Dave Koz and Friends at Sea Jazz … Continue reading →
Drifters Overland Adventures – Zimbabwe, Chobe River, Victoria Falls, Hwange, Machete, Joburg
Boma Braai, Zambezi Sunset Cocktail Cruise, Rhino Tracking, and San Rock Art. The hippos in the Okavango Delta lagoon gave us a send-off with grunts and bellows. Our fleet of Mekoros rustled the grasses with a sweeping gesture, … Continue reading →
Country Tramps in the English Gems
England Walks, Strolls, and Saunders. England means walking. Memories of country tramps and urban saunters. London, Oxford, and a hundred towns encrusted with time and beauty never lose their appeal to a wanderer on foot. Likewise the rural … Continue reading →
Ancient Culture Cruising with MSC Cruises
Cruise the Med of Ancient Mariners. Although my wife and I have travelled a good deal over the years, the “cruise experience” had eluded us. No particular reason — we’d heard plenty, good and bad, about luxury ship … Continue reading →
Peloponnese, As You Please – Greece Adventure With Insight Vacations
Epidauros, Home of Hippocrates. The Corinth Canal. The Peloponnese peninsula is literally chopped off from mainland Greece by the isthmus bisection of the Corinth Canal that connects the Ionian and Myleon Seaslike a pencil transit on a blueprint. In the 19th … Continue reading →
Olympia – Sport and Sacrifice – Stadion Spectacle: – Adventures in Greece With Insight Vacations
The First Olympics Were in 779 B.C. Oak and wild olive were sacred in the ancient Altis sanctuary of Olympia. The ancient Olympic Games in Olympia, Greece were a spectacle of sports, sacrifice, statuary, and suffering in a station sanctuary … Continue reading →
I Came, I Saw, I Ate – Londra Palace Venice
Venezia – Venice, capital of the Veneto region. Venice is known as ‘The City of Bridges” with over 100 of them crossing the famous canals. The main transport is by boat or by foot because cars are banned … Continue reading →
Tip Toe Thru The Tulips in Skagit Valley
American Tulip Capital. This festival has no outdoor bands, no costumed folks, and no dancing—unless you count the gazillion tulips waving in the fields. This is Washington State’s Skagit Valley Tulip Festival. Put your “Two Lips” … Continue reading →
Jurassic Falaza Game Park and Spa
Local Farmers Create A Game Park. A hundred years ago there were only 50 white rhinos in all of South Africa, but because of conservation efforts, there are now over 20,000, but only about 4,500 black rhinos, down … Continue reading →
The Ghost of the Elephant Coast, Zululand, South Africa
A Traditional Zulu Sacred Mountain. From the N2 Highway Ghost Mountain looks like an angular baboon’s molar knocked out of kilter needing to be extracted from the earthly maw. It is a tooth of time that has … Continue reading →
Viva Villa Verano in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
Verano Mean Summer in Spanish. “Verano”, the Spanish word for “summer”, aptly describes this secluded hideaway, for here it’s summer year-round. Saltillos, cobblestone and lush foliage. This is a fully-staffed private estate in Conchas … Continue reading →
Spanning Espana – Cruise Ship and Road Trip
Discover Spain by Road and Sea. My only regret after several months in Spain was not having discovered it sooner. Franco in 1969. Maybe that avoidance stemmed from a prior trip to Spain and … Continue reading →
Egypt Adventures with Great Safaris
Click the Leopard for Great Safaris. Abu Simbel Temples: Abu Simbel is Pharaoh Ramses II’s enduring autograph in stone. Abu Simbel Is a bookmark to power and history, full of life, full of voices from the distant yesterday, forever shining in … Continue reading →
Gingerbread and Crystal all-inclusives in St. Lucia
Luxury all-inclusives in the Caribbean. Visited mostly by droves of love-struck honeymooners and cruise ship passengers, the Caribbean island nation of Saint Lucia is the most developed in the region. Luxurious beachfront all-inclusive resorts are the main draw … Continue reading →
Tranquil Ancient Antigua Beaches
Antigua, Spanish for Ancient. A Hobi Cat ready for action at Jolly Beach, Antigua. When I say blue water, what shade of blue do you think of? Chances are, you may think of blueberries, the … Continue reading →
In the Shadow of Tennis – Palm Springs Shadow Mountain Resort
Tempting Tennis at Shawo Mountain. Shadow Mountain is famous for Tennis. Greater Palm Springshas become the tennis capital of the world. Scores of resorts, private clubs, and condo complexes offer courts on a variety of surfaces (hard, … Continue reading →
Tennis Holy Grail – Desert Springs Marriott Resort
Burwash Tennis Clinics and Marriott Cuisine. Lawn tennis at J.W. Marriott Desert Springs. I find myself grinning a good deal — even whistling a happy tune — as I ramble about J.W. Marriott’s Desert Springs Resort … Continue reading →
Italy – Medicis, Museums, Mugello
Villa Cafaggiolo, a Medici residence in the Mugello countryside. Portrait by Jacopo Pontormo. This autumn Florence and vicinity is honoring the ancient ties between the Mugello, that splendid pastoral landscape north of the city, and the … Continue reading →