The Adventures of Travel Penguin

What is your favorite time of the day? Any special reason?  Joe or Kamela in 2024?  What was the last thing you photographed?  When do you t...

Dyke Marsh National Wildlife Refuge is on Virginia side of the Potomac River, about a mile south of Alexandria, Virginia, about 8 miles sout...

  I like cheese, in fact I have seldom met a cheese I didn't like.  I have been known to indulge in the stinkiest of soft cheeses, to sl...

  I grew up watching an American daytime game show, Let's make a Deal, in the last round of each show, a contestant was given the option...

This is one of my great-grandfathers, my father's, mother's father.  He was born in about 1879.  At the time he married my great-gra...

  The first time I remember getting excited about exploring a supermarket, was in Arizona, in about 1985.  I was there for a three day works...

With roots in having an English grandmother, and my father's sarcastic streak, I love British sitcoms.  I know they are not everyone...

  I turned 18 a few days before I started my senior year of high school, and at that time the legal drinking age in the USA was 18.  One of ...

No one lives forever.  I am always surprised by people who act as though they are going to never die.  Live each day, as though it might be ...

  I know at some point in the past, I have written about fruitcake, the post and my praise of fruitcake inspired  David a blogger in the Pa...

  I love hotel do-not-disturb (DND) signs. I especially like funky, unique, one of a kind, one's that hang over the door handle, ones th...

  This is my fourth inauguration day, that I have lived in the Washington DC area.  I moved here, and started a job just around the corner o...

This was taken out of the window of an Amtrak Passenger train stopped at a station in New Jersey, on my way to New York, about 5 or 6 years ...

Even if we voted against him, we still owe the world an apology.  He who must not be named was a mistake, as a civilized country we owe the ...

  I recently had an hour lone Zoom video call with a friend who is thinking about retirement in a decade or so.  She is planning ahead, as s...

  This appears to be an Eastern Phoebe, pretty bird, and this one was fairly easy to photograph, I followed him or her, from branch to branc...

If you are an American, ignore the name of this item.  It is not a pudding, even if you are familiar with the Brits use of the term pudding ...

  At times I long to live a world of shopkeepers, small local markets with shopkeepers who are passionate about the products they sell, and ...

  In the Summer of 1974, I spent two weeks on a 2,000 acre ranch about 75 miles east of Colorado Springs.  It was part of a 4-H exchange pro...

  Following, Brussels (see last Tuesday), I went to Amsterdam, then Mt St Michelle, then the D-Day beaches in Normandy.  I wanted to visit t...