COME ALONG AND EXPLORE THE WORLD WITH US
My wife and I love to travel and experience other cultures from around the world. Although we most often get a street-level view of the places we travel, this doesn’t mean we don’t occasionally splurge. Travel along with us as we explore the world!
Dodging Reindeer in Finland and Burning Witches in Norway
One of the adventures of independent travel lies in the impulsive unknown. The freedom to stop or stay anywhere that you like. Take that odd road, where you say to yourself, “Let’s just see where it goes.” Marilynn and I used to do this in the era before cell phone...
Tales from Tallinn, Estonia
All aboard! A Finlandia ferry from Helsinki shoots across the Baltic Sea to Tallinn, Estonia in only two and one-half hours. Feels more like a cruise ship than a ferry. Bars and restaurants galore, multi-gambling machines everywhere, live clown entertainment for the...
Solo Adventures: Ron to Amsterdam and Marilynn to Albania
While Marilynn buses west to hike in the Albanian Alps, I take a train north to get stoned in Amsterdam. The photos below depict potential dangers of marijuana and hash. Bicycles. More bicycles than people in Amsterdam. Over two-thirds of the population pedal to work...
Solo Travels Get Crazy: North Macedonia and Brussels, Belgium
I sit on the train from Clermont-Ferrand to Paris trying not to touch my knees against the young woman’s sitting directly across from me. We shall try not to look at each other for the next five hours. Squeals of an infant, also across from me, screech through my...