The Adventures of Travel Penguin

  The first subway system I rode was the London Tube system back in 1990.  A very old system, my great grandfather worked on the tunnels bef...

I always revert to the American Military Cemetery in Normandy when I think about the sacrifice of war.  Every world leader should spend a da...

  We were headed north to Geysir, and there was a sign for something scenic on the right side of the road.  We pulled in, paid 400 krona eac...

Greetings from the Board of Directors at Spo Reflections .  We have seized this blog thingy for the day to express our demands.  Our minions...

The women sitting in my row on the plane back from Iceland (the middle seat was empty!) said, "there are 200 named waterfalls in Icelan...

The French refer to returning to work after a vacation / holiday /break as reentry.  I can only describe my reentry as brutal. That first we...

  We ran across this 1964 Comet convertible on King Street a few weeks ago on a wonderful sunny Sunday afternoon.  I was shocked by how long...

  I mentioned recently, that memory is a fickle thing.  We met friends in Athens about 15 years ago.  Kent and Carole had been there on a sa...

Late in her life, as dementia lowered her inhibitions, my mother found sitcoms entertaining, the rauncher and more tasteless the better.  I ...

How long until we are all driving electric cars? Have you owned a diesel car? What is lowest price you remember ever paying for fuel (petrol...

We try to stick to a two-night minimum hotel stay when we travel, staying in one place at least two nights if at all possible.  One night, i...

  Sometimes the most spectacular is the simplest.  A diamond solitaire,  a single rose, a simple chair and its shadow. Often we fiddle and f...

  So what is new?  An email from the appliance guy, the new refrigerator is in the warehouse, still waiting on the ovens and dishwasher.  Th...

I have mentioned before that I grew up around airports and small airplanes, my father's hobby.  I know this was taken in Michigan, proba...

I commented in my department meeting a couple of weeks, that I knew I needed to get away, and hoped that I would be less grumpy when I retur...

I listened to this on the plane a week ago, heading into Iceland.  "What could possibly go wrong?" Nothing did, it was a wonderful...

  1: Do you prefer cats or dogs?  2: Do cats like you?  3: Have you ever been attacked by a cat? 4: When will cats rule the earth?  5: Did y...

My Saturday Morning Posts, are usually written about a week ahead of time, something different this one was written in mid-April because of ...

I avoid talking about my health, if you want the gory details, complete with MRI images, take a look at May - June of 2015. Once a year, I i...

I usually write ahead of time and schedule,  I usually don't mention travel until after it has happened.  But I am feeling relaxed and t...