The Adventures of Travel Penguin

King Street in old town Alexandria Virginia is the heart of the original commercial district dating back to colonial days.  250 years ago, t...

Is there a perfect climate, warm enough for the top down, cool enough to be comfortable?  A place where it is like that more than a few week...

Well I had a post drafted, before the road trip, then the road trip changed, J went solo from northern Indiana to visit his family near Clev...

I created this post a couple of weeks before Queen Elizabeth II died. When I wrote it I had no idea that the chapel at Windsor would be in t...

I had no idea when I took this photo, how I would use it.  And here it is, not perfect, but it works for this post.  Agricultural Aviation A...

  Have you ever grown a garden?  Have you eaten veggies in the garden without washing them?  What would you make with this table full of pep...

Beauty is all around us.  In the normal and mundane, and in the elaborate and intentional.  There is beauty in the simplicity of a single fl...

Is there such a thing as a perfect photograph?  Way back in ancient history I tried my hand at professional photography.  Every job that som...

My brother in law Peter died Wednesday morning.  He was 65.  My sister dated Pete, or maybe it was his twin brother Paul, when she was in hi...

The Way We Were : When I was a child on the farm, my grandparents lived around the corner, on the same farm.  I was probably about 8 or 9 wh...

I have owned two VWs, I  came close a couple of times but I have never owned a Beetle.  The first summer I lived in Florida, I was looking a...

A few months ago we heard a pianist at the Kennedy Center Concert Hall who reminded me what a wonderful instrument the piano can be.  He pla...

When do you start packing for a trip?  How many pieces of luggage do you own?  Are there things that are always packed and ready to go? Have...

I have developed a fascination with signs, taking photos of signs, signs that say do this, or don't to that.  More of them are don't...

  Maybe something that holds fewer books and more empty file folders.  

A year ago I said, okay, let's go ahead and redo the kitchen.  Everything worked, but there were issues with the layout and cabinets and...

What have I been up to? Work, I have a major board meeting coming up and I have been doing prep for that. My department has been included i...

  It started simply enough, J was shopping, it was near Easter, and he saw cute little stuffed animal sheep, he put it in the basket, the ca...

A few days of dealing with building contractors and workers, I know just how Manuel feels, I am the only one who speaks English - sort of.  ...

Do you have a gnome?  Do you find gmones friendly or freaky?  Should we encourage gnomes? What would you name the one above?  What would you...