The Adventures of Travel Penguin

A year ago, I posted these resolutions for 2018, how have I done?   Continue my gym time - mission accomplished  Add a couple of pe...

For the last Sunday five of 2018 - let's blog about blogging?  1: How many blogs do you visit, when you have time to visit blogs?...

By my nature I am a score keeper, and this time of the year I tend to look back over the year and see what have I done.  I have learned t...

In addition the 5 2 books I had read by July 31, 2018 , I finished these 18 for a total of 70 books this year.  I have two partially rea...

2018 was a busy travel year.  I just added up the number of airline flights boarded = 56, the number of hotel nights = 56.  That is...

This picture was taken about 15 years ago in Yorkshire.  Stephen on the left, got me started in blogging, I filled in for him one summ...

There is a fine British tradition of the Queen's Speech, a public address at Christmas.  In homage to my English, Welsh, Irish a...

My mother loved Christmas Eve, she could control everyone, under a hollow threat, my father hated getting up early on Christmas day, so o...

This picture was taken 12 years ago, it was the first time in several years that my parents and all of the kids were together, the next t...

One advantage of having traveled and taken lots and lots of photographs, is the ability to open the photo file on my computer and get an i...

Jay wants to update the condo, put our personal stamp on it.  Is this too much, or just right? 

When I was a teenager, I spent a week on a 2,000 acre ranch in Colorado one summer.  I called home, to see if I could stay on an extra ...

This was one of the first christmases in the house in Kentucky, 1996 maybe 1997.  It is the only two story house I have ever lived in and...

I have reached a comfortable place in life.  I want and need to work for a few more years, but all in all, I am in a good place. To some ...

Love yourself!  We all have flaws.  Beating yourself up about them, will not change them.  We generally know what we would need to do ...

Everything we do started someplace and time.  This week's theme, first times.  How old were you when you got your first passport? ...

Ten years ago today, I took a giant leap of faith, and started my job in Washington DC.  I left behind a job with a couple of years of fu...

Earlier this year, the teenage son of a friend of mine hid in a classroom in his high school, desperately texting his father, while an an...

I have a conference coming up next spring in Ft. Worth, Texas.  Should I buy the hat and boots?  I own a couple of pairs of boots, but I ...

This was taken in Toronto about 14 years ago, in Toronto, with my first real digital camera.  I will have that one around here somep...