In July, 1986 the then popular Life Magazine featured an article about America’s Loneliest Highway, Route 50 from the Reno, Carson City area southeast diagonally across the state through Fallon, Austin, Eureka, Ely to Great Basin National Park and Baker and into Utah....

For a better vacation, for as long as I can remember, as long as I have been traveling, I have taken less clothes and more money. Worked for me on short, overnight vacations, or long extended vacations, and has worked for me as I have visited all 50 states, 75...

Road trips, when you have some time, and can enjoy a leisurely drive, can be really fun, a great way to see a lot of our beautiful country, try different cuisines, learn about the history of the area. Recently I have been taking a few trips and thought I’d share a...

When my daughter told me that she was taking a group with her travel company, Gusto Mexico, to the wine region of Mexico, I had no idea that Mexico produced wine, or where it was. I had no idea how developed it was, the long history, the quality of wines being...

In 1986 my then wife and I wanted to go somewhere different, someplace not often visited, discovered, by Americans. We found, and decided on, the Dominican Republic, the north coast, a place called Puerto Plata. It had a resort or two, was well known to Europeans, but...

In early 2021, when the travel agent I had been working with for years arbitrarily cancelled a scheduled group trip I had been promoting to Huatulco, Mexico, it gave me an opportunity to step back, to reflect on what I wanted my group trips to be, where I wanted them...

As the calendar flipped over and welcomed in 2021, although as I mentioned in my last blog post, 2020 was a good year, I still think I heard a collective sigh of relief. Let’s turn the page, I heard. Thank God 2020 is finally over. So let’s take a brief look at six...

OK, maybe not a great year, maybe not for everybody and every business, but if the only constant in life is change, then 2020 certainly qualified. As in any year, restaurants opened, restaurants closed. Managers were hired and fired, employees came and went. But it...

Before you get ready to blast me for my lack of concern, my insensitivity, relax. I know that the coronavirus is, hopefully was, by the time you read this blog, serious. Different people are handling the crisis differently. Hunkering down, staying inside, social...