The Adventures of Travel Penguin

A production company was filing scenes for a movie (they were using film cameras, so it was almost certainly a movie not television) at the ...

The theory is that if the plane could fly through the terminal and not stop as it picked up and dropped passengers, it could operate more ef...

It felt like a 100 mile an hour wind was rattling the house this morning, but there was no wind, and the rumbling sound was not like thunde...

It has been a very long week, I could really use a nice fluffy bed like this one. Just one more day without hurting anyone and it will be...

Well this appears to be the hottest trend in beach side hotels, giant chess sets. I thought that they made ideal portable perches. TR

And with those lacy feathers and long legs he will never be able to swim! TR

Someone expects DG to work while we are off on these little side trips. It is a cold cruel world, but work he must do if he wants to be pai...

Not often, but every once in a while, something makes me want to settle down, stay in one place, hatch an egg or two, like Mr & Mrs Squi...

Yes, it was warm, lows of around 72 and highs of around 80, a nearly perfect tropical climate. A tropical climate complete with lots of hum...

DG and I are tropics bound in the morning, headed to Puerto Rico for 49 hours. He has work to do, I have a beach to thaw on. We should ...

Someone asked Uncle Bert's class where wood comes from and one of the students promptly replied, "plastic!" I suspect these a...

Sushi and champagne , I am looking for a reason to celebrate. Spring would be a good one. I didn't snow here, but it was cold enough ...

Visiting the relatives for Easter. TR

All I wanted was a nice cold glass of water, DG was waiting for a diet coke. Why do they make me wait for the kitchen to squirt his glass f...

You never know where you are going to run into rodents these days. They let them into the best places. I think these two made it in Hollyw...

When we are home for a few days it is always fun to stop in and visit with old friends and neighbors. TR

Disney has a relatively new coaster ride, modeled on a barnstorming airplane ride. Up-down-and-around. Our boarding was delayed by a sqaull...

While we were in Florida we dropped in on some old freinds. DG lived in Florida for years and years, and well we won't talk about how o...

I am sitting back today dreaming of warmer places. It is cold, and getting colder by the minute. DG was out and about this morning droppi...