The Adventures of Travel Penguin

I never saw the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, I didn't visit New York until the fall of 2009.  I have vivid memories of the eve...

  The photo above is George Washington's office at Mt. Vernon, his home office. This gets me to thinking about some of the offices or wo...

What have I been up to in the kitchen this week? Quiche, round-steak with mashed potatoes and cauliflower, meat loaf, ham and baked beans, s...

 

Show me the things you have kept, and I will know more about you, than you have ever told anyone. After my father died, I was sorting throug...

1: How long have you been blogging? (If you don't blog, why not?)  2: How did you learn about blogging?  3: Does your family read your b...

Before Blogging, I started posting on Virtual Tourist, and the Mirror Project .  I discovered VT when I was searching for tips on visiting P...

My roots are European, English, Welsh, French, German, maybe a little Irish or Scottish. My family presence in north America has been traced...

  THANK YOU ALL!  I hope you enjoy this blog, I truly enjoy writing it, reading your comments and responding. You bring so much to my life. ...

What have I been doing this week? Doing too much. I was asked to score grant applications on a tight deadline, written materials for a confe...

 

Congratulations, if you are reading this, you woke up alive again today. Not everyone did. I assure you some of them were very surprised to ...

1: Would you stop at this Starbucks, it is between the train station and the Palace of Versailles?  2: When was the last time, you had somet...

I used to say, I can't draw, now I say, I am still developing my ability to draw.  If you think you can, or you think you can't, you...

 https://youtu.be/z1Reuyu9e_o?si=tnzAGwry4hFylMdz   I follow several travel forums on the book of faces, about the only thing worth seeing o...

I was born a long-long time ago early in the morning on August 27th, with a thunderstorm raging through the night. My mother complained that...

  What have I been up to in the kitchen this week?  Baked chicken with butter and white wine, roast salmon, potato salad, local fresh greens...

A week at sea, crossing the Atlantic is either heaven or hell.  I have done it three times, and I truly enjoy it. Quiet days, that develop a...