The Adventures of Travel Penguin

  Almost every day, I make a decision at least once, of how much I disclose, what are the risks, is this a safe place.  I specifically menti...

  Back in 2015, way back, but not way-way back, I had a bad health year.  In May of that year I had some major spinal surgery, and a little ...

I remember taking this photo. I was in south Florida in March of 2018 for a board meeting, I had a couple of hours to drive back to the airp...

It is dated, and it is corny, but Night Court was brilliant situation comedy.  It probably stayed on the air a little too long after the ide...

On King Street one morning recently. Nice, very Nice.  A couple of weeks ago, Andrew in Australia , pointed out that most of my early cars w...

So I sit here debating with myself, do I want to write about the Pandemic, not really.  We have, we are, we will, live through it. It has ch...

  I stumbled across the concept of an allotment watching old British sitcoms.  The city allows private gardens on public land, most often un...

I received word recently that the contract that funds about half of my job, has been renewed for a new up to five year term.  This likely me...

This is the first house my parents owned in the suburbs of Detroit.  It was sold 4 or 5 years before I was born.  They had friends a couple ...

  Sometime in the middle 1970's a distant cousin of my grandmother's from England was in the USA doing work on a script for a Clint ...

When this song first came out, I had didn't think it was very good, I appreciate the magic of Rod Stewart's voice.  I got the lyrics...

This is the opening of a pedestrian tunnel, not far from where I live.  Would you go down those stairs and walk into the yellow light?  Kind...

When I was and packing my daily messenger bag for the trip to New York, I ran across a card with the entry code for the Hygge recline lounge...

  Okay, I will admit it, I have a history of finding some of the worst restaurants in New York city.  Bad food, miserable service, and yet J...

A friend posted on Facebook about her grandson starting school for the first time, he will graduate high school in the class of 2034, Univer...

  I took these photos in Athens.  The inscription at the top, is 2,500 years old, and describes settling of a dispute.  Sometimes I read the...

  I have a new collaborator on a work project who lives in New Mexico. I have been to New Mexico a few times as a child, once as an adult.  ...

Blogger is giving me a hard time loading photos this morning, so this image is entirely random.  Plucked out of 60,000+ files with no idea w...

With a blog, that mentions travel in the name, I enjoy sharing about travel.  The past 18 months have changed travel.  Hence this week's...

It is the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center, Pentagon and another hijacked flight that crashed in Pennsylvania.  20 ...