You know I love Mexico. Been all over, and really love the Yucatan peninsula area. Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Puerto Morales, the Riviera Maya. But travel into and out of Cancun has changed dramatically since I first landed there in 1978. It is now the busiest tourist...
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...
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...
…….Just can’t wait to get on the road again. Unfortunately my most recent road began with a stop in Greeley where dear friend, long time show sponsor, and great lady Sue Albert, owner of Fat Albert’s Restaurant for 42 years, was hanging it up. Sue explained that she...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
