The Adventures of Travel Penguin

Some of you have read an update on FB today, but not all cross over. An update from this mornings' update on FB.  As expected I am ...

Bath, England Fifteen years ago, we spent a couple of nights in Bath.  Bath is named for the Roman baths, that are still there,  The ba...

There are many architectural wonders in Chicago.  Chicago is known as the second city, because much of what you see was built after the gr...

When I was growing up, we didn't travel a lot.  My father was a bee farmer, and summer vacations were out of the question, tha...

The MRI results are not pretty, I am looking for a specialist. Posting for Travel Penguin are pre-scheduled past Memorial Day.

Times Square has been called the cross roads of the world.  New York is an amazing city, and in many ways Times Square is the beating he...

Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, just north of Norfolk Virginia Taken with the camera held through an open sunroof Life is a strange jou...

Live Racing at Keeneland, in Lexington, Kentucky  I am not from Kentucky, but I lived there for 13.5 years, I own property there, I mai...

Downtown Detroit from the air Henry Ford and the tunnel from Detroit to Windsor, Ontario Canada, feature in my family history.  My gra...

Cricket spread across the English Empire like fleas at a cat show.  The United States either split too soon, or too long ago and cricket ...

American Alligator - Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge The American Alligator is an amazing story of recovery.  The species was o...

Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge The real Florida lays off the beaten path, far away from the land of make believe worlds. The...

The Jefferson Memorial is a little hard to get to.  The nearest subway station is Smithsonian, from there it is half-maybe-three-quarters...

Travel is something I enjoy doing.  30-years ago I dreamed of a job that would allow me to travel to 3 or 4 conventions a year.  I purs...

DC has a blooming season, sometime between late March and Late April the cherry trees bloom, along with every other blooming tree in the p...

The seasons here in DC are not subtle, spring arrives with an explosion of bloom and color.  The first trees to bloom are known as red bu...

February 2000 Roof Of St Peters in Rome The sign said elevator to the dome.  I like elevators and the view from the dome of St. Peter...

Otto by Mario Batali in Las Vegas I have had amazing luck over the years at getting in to eat at top restaurants without reservations. ...

LA Subway Station in West Hollywood But it also has a modern subway system.  It is not an extensive system like New York, London or P...

Boarding Cal Train at Millbrae - just south of SFO I mentioned that from Las Vegas I went onto a meeting at Stanford University, in Pal...