The Adventures of Travel Penguin

Aeronautical engineers have speculated over the years that a bumble-bee is incapable of flight.  We are unable to figure out how bumble-b...

A couple of people recently asked me about traveling to Europe on organized tours versus traveling with just airline tickets and hotel re...

On Thursday I did something I have only done once before, a presentation through a language interpreter.  My office was visited by a dele...

So last month my 6:30 PM flight became an 8:30 PM flight from Chicago to San Francisco.  It happens, the later in the day you are departi...

Mom has been in the hospital this week.  At 89 she is nearing the end of nearly a decade of illness and decline, Parkinson's, dementi...

It is amazing how much nowhere you can fly over in 9 hours.  It took my Grandmother most of a week to cross the Atlantic by ship 100 year...

I don't buy a lot of stuff anymore when I travel.  I collect "Pins" from the places I have visited and try to find one or t...

We have to be careful about the development of smellavision.  There are some things most would enjoy smelling, some that would make many ...

With this year's incidents in Paris and Brussels several people asked me if I felt safe traveling to Europe this summer.  My sim...

I occasionally hear people whisper, how does he do it, how does he travel so much?  Let me dispel a couple of rumors, I am not a trust f...

We went to Modena Italy on a mission, Modena is known for three things, balsamic vinegar, Pavarotti, and very fast cars.  Moden...

Walking through the doors of a hotel, I am never 100% what I will find; there is often a surprise, some good, some not. I have had some...

How about five questions on bikes? I learned to ride as a kid, I was ungainly and uncoordinated as a kid and riding a bike was one of the...

A little video collage

The Castle St Angelo will be the subject of future posts.  It is an ancient castle, a fort.  It has served as a refuge for Popes fleeing ...

 W When you see an image of the Colosseum, you think of Rome, when you think of Rome, one of the first images to come to mind is li...

If you are itching to see pictures of the trip to see Italy, want to see them faster, or want to see more of them, browse on over to The A...

A request for a proposal for a major project hit my desk two days before I left for Italy, a five year million dollar project.  I could h...

The Pantheon in Rome was built about 2,000 years ago.  It is a marvel of design and engineering.  Having been built long befo...

Tulips in the twilight in Chicago.