The Adventures of Travel Penguin

I was in a card shop on King Street in Old Town Alexandria, Virginia recently and they had a photographer as an artist in residence.  One...

I took a year of French in high school, the teacher was impossible, the teaching methods very focused on grammar. I hated the class, but l...

Steve had a headstone in his backyard.  When I asked about it, he said, "no one is buried here, it is there to remind me that life is...

It is back to school season. Middle school and high school were not the best times of my life, in honesty they were some of the most tryi...

Well, I have survived another trip around the sun, another tick on the calendar, another fun and exciting year. I was born in the middle o...

About 20 years ago Chrysler came out with the PT Cruiser, it was one of the first "retro design" cars, with styling cues fr...

I like fish, they are pretty and they are tasty. Hence this weeks' fishy Sunday Five. 1: Have you ever caught a fish? 2: Have you ...

Comments Ginny Watts   WE ALREADY ARE A GREAT NATION ... WE DON'T NEED THIS BULLSHIT SATIRE! 1 Delete or h...

I love flowers.  The colors, the shapes, the smells (have you noticed most ornamental flowers have less scent than they did in the past...

I enjoy funny T-shirts.  A few that I wear: Bears Like People, they taste just like chicken I'd agree with you, but then we'd ...

I remember the first time I saw remains of World War II coastal defenses, in Normandy.  A big part of why I had gone there (that and Mt St...

This is a modern picture, taken at Payne Field last month, but this is the era of airplane I grew up around.  My father owned a couple of ...

I was able to check something off my bucket list on the trip to Washington State, seeing an active volcano.  I don't know why, b...

I was raised in Michigan, where you couldn't put a shovel in the ground without hitting a rock or ten.  Mostly conglomerates of gr...

No Theme This Week, five random questions I might ask if we sat down to talk: 1: What is the largest number of time zones you have spann...

I am about to give up on FB, but the psychological manipulation keeps me coming back.   Another old friend posted a comment recently, I...

I have a million stories that start with, I sat next to a person on a plane once, and almost as many stories that start with, "I had...

If you ever visit my bedroom, you will find a lot of framed photos of the adventures of my life. Not the lovers from my past, but pictures...

As I have mentioned I was raised on a Funny Farm, make that a Honey Farm.  In about 1974 there was a world honey shortage and the wholesal...

We spent a couple of night in Port Angeles Washington.  It is on the strait that separates Washington State from British Columbia. ...