Everything is gained in the translation

My first Semana Santa in Mexico is full of surprises.

Arteries of the earth, swift rivers are taking Star Dust and crew on to a new phase of life. No going back, as wonderful as it has been.

Inland waterways of Georgia are so beautiful I could not figure out why we skipped it and traveled up the Gulf Stream 20 years ago on our sailing voyage. It only took one day of boating in Georgia to remember why.

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A glimpse at the life of a Florida shrimper

White elephants - a curse and a blessing

A noncompetitive sport for tough people

One more way to analyze yourself

Caged birds need to be free more than they need the karma

Trying times require the best version of ourself

That bear would cause mayhem if it broke through the flimsy fence wires, but better to lose the bees than risk Glen getting between a hungry beast and his midnight snack.

The Spanish Colonial heritage of Oaxaca Mexico serves as a stunning backdrop for Guelaguetza, the celebration of all things indigenous. An entire week of dances, costumes and foods celebrate their ancient Zapotec past

White elephants - a curse and a blessing

Beekeeping is no instant gratification hobby and figuratively speaking, beekeepers are a dying breed.

Sweden won my heart when I looked out the window of the train and saw an ad for a floor cleaning product that featured a man with a mop and bucket.

Lazy rivers, working windmills and fields of flowers had so far marked our journey from Amsterdam as we pedaled our way to Bruges, Belgium.

“There, did you see that?” Ben Kittell, our fly fishing guide on the Lower Deshutes River pointed a few feet from where I balanced in the current. He whispered, “A fish just broke the surface”.

if you have to say goodbye to something wonderful and start a new phase of adventures, Bali, Indonesia is a good place to start.

“Aye, that’s a tricky period for finding your Ancestors.” A nice way of saying that the hours of online research to find John Jamieson, my Scottish ancestor, were for nothing. Birth records in Edinburgh showed I had the wrong guy.