Travel Flashback: It was my first night in San Francisco. I was a bit timid about entering any restaurant. But an Italian Family Restaurant sounded unpretentious and delicious. Inside, I learned there was a thirty-minute wait. Now what? I saw…
Monthly Archives: March 2018
Travel Short Stories
Why would I want to read a book of travel short stories? I recommend it. I can tell you what it did for me. When I was an undergraduate student, I attended classes, participated in a few school-sponsored extracurricular activities,…
Posted in Travel Posts
Ten Myths about Hostels
HOSTELS. Here is my list of ten myths, but there are most certainly more. You have to be under age 30 to stay at a hostel. Hostels are open to all ages. You have to be traveling solo to stay…
Posted in Thinking Travel
Sarajevo-still moments
♠I was walking through the market and admiring the metal objects made at local workshops. As I was considering a coffee grinder, the vendor came over and demonstrated how it worked. He told me that you can always tell the…
Posted in World Glimpses
Hippopotamos
When I think of a hippo, my mind goes to Henrietta Hippo from the New Zoo Revue, a children’s TV show that was playing in the mid 1970s. I liked Henrietta. She wore dresses and skipped, and lived in an suburban…
Posted in Wildlife
