Perspectives
"Paris is a museum," said the Paris-based filmmaker I'd been chatting with over beers. Look beyond the monuments, museums, tourist traps, and other obvious must-sees and there's vibrant everyday life.…
The Perfect Travel Camera
2026 update: There's a market for dead GRs, and I sold mine to partially fund a new GRiii. A review is coming. 2025 update: My GR bit the dust. 2024…
Somme 1916
During our recent trip to France our son, Eli, and I were discussing our shared interest in visiting WWI monuments. That led, in turn, to a day trip to the…
Food Matters: Paris 2018
Following a recent trip to Paris, I have some new-to-us recommendations to add to my previous list: Inexpensive and great seems like an oxymoron when it comes to Paris, but…
Tips: Better travel photos
No names, but I once sat through a slideshow of someone's travels that included 300 images. About 50 in, I realized they had dumped their memory card and included every,…
Places: Bisbee, Arizona
In my mind, Bisbee, Arizona's center of gravity is located somewhere between the wild west days and the shutdown of the Copper Queen Mine in the '70s. Those challenging and…
Places: Death Valley Junction
The Amargosa Opera House stands at the corner of State Line Road and California Route 127, in a place now called Death Valley Junction. In the early 1920s it was…
Fare wars
After a relatively slow summer for airfare sales, the last few weeks have seen competition heat up. Beth and I had a list of places we were interested in visiting…
Practical matters: passports
Last week I started the passport renewal process. The good news: If you're a US citizen you only have to do this every ten years. The bad: 2018 is the…
Travel’s missing ingredient
Yelp, TripAdvisor, Instagram, Google Street view and countless other always-available web sites and services have drained travel of a critical ingredient: Mystery. How often do most of us land in…