I wasn’t expecting to see these rugged, barren lava fields when I visited southeastern Idaho. The aptly named Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve is about an 85 mile drive from Idaho Falls.
A San Francisco Treat
New England Holocaust Memorial
I was quite moved by the simple, yet powerful message of the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston. There is a path that runs beneath the six glass towers representing the main Nazi concentration camps — Majdanek, Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Auschwitz-Birkenau. Etched in the glass are six million…
Reflections on September 11th
This is a re-post of an article published last year on the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks.
Around the world, many are reflecting on the tragic events of September 11, 2001…
From Humble to Hearst Castle
This schoolhouse in Old San Simeon along California’s Central Coast is a humble contrast to the opulence of Hearst Castle on top of the hill behind it. The one-room school was built in 1881. When newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst built his estate in the early 1900s, he was inspired…
Ernest Hemingway: Chapter One
Ernest Hemingway has been a favorite author of mine since I read The Sun Also Rises many years ago.
Red Rock Canyon: Nevada on the Rocks
On a trip to Las Vegas this summer, we decided to take a break from the Strip one afternoon and get some fresh air and exercise at Red Rock Canyon, just 15 miles west of downtown.
Freddie and Friends
On a weekend getaway, we stayed in Cambria, California after driving down the coast from the San Francisco Bay Area. After a drive along Big Sur and touring the extravagant Hearst Castle in San Simeon, we checked into our hotel in Cambria. Before dinner we took a walk along the…