The Adventures of Travel Penguin

I suspect that many people who say they would never go on a cruise, either have never been on one, or the Cruise they hated was poorly selec...

  I shared the meme below on Facebook after the latest high school shooting, there have been so many I have a hard time keeping track of the...

Where have I been?   Manassas for a flightseeing ride, DC for lunch with a friend and a nice walk in a museum, the farmers market, a walk in...

Riding a wind powered train (electric)   

My successor in the office, emailed saying it was time to meet for lunch, I met her in the city one day last week. Her schedule was full, lu...

  1: Do you do cross word puzzles?  2: Do you do the Daily Wordle?  3: Do you do word search puzzles?  4: Do you do Yorkshire Pudding weekly...

I grew up spending Saturday or Sunday mornings hanging around the local airport, with pilots and little airplanes. Two of my four earliest m...

I remember the first time I tipped a hotel housekeeper, I was in Deadwood South Dakota, leading training on elder abuse and interviewing ski...

I have edited this post several times.  The adventures of life and death are often learning experiences. Not always cheerful, but sometimes ...

What have I been cooking?   My holiday fruitcakes, pizza, ham and bean soup,   Who have I heard from?   Paula, Mitchell, Spo, my Sister, Joh...

19 Years ago today, I put up the first post on The Adventures of Travel Penguin. Travel is sitting on my desk, waiting for the next adventur...

There are times when life wears us down, kind of like our phones, there are times when we just need a recharge.  Most days, a good nights sl...

1: Do you play any musical instrument?  2: Do drop money in the box of street musicians?  3: Did you ever try to learn to play music?  4: Is...

One of my goals for this year was to walk 45 minutes a day. Almost immediately I dropped into a pattern of walking for an hour or more most ...

There is nothing more frustrating than finding a lose thread, not having anything to cut it with, pulling on it and making it worse, or tryi...

  On the farm I grew up on, my grandparents lived around the corner, so almost a quarter of a mile away, in the original farm house.  When t...

What have I been up to?   Not much, it has been nice to be home for a week. I finished up a writing project, did a little shopping, finished...

Long long ago, very early in the morning, after keeping my mother and the nurses awake most of the night, with thunderstorms raging outside,...

I was reading a book recently about two photographers who funded by grants traveled across the United States in 1955-56 documenting post war...

1: What household pet most describes you?  2: What barnyard animal most describes you?  3: What drink most describes you?  4: What kind of a...