Our final trip in Montenegro was a two-hour drive inland to the famous Ostrog Monastery. Built in the late 17th century, the monastery is dedicated to St. Basil of Ostrog,…

The town we had originally intended to visit after seeing Kotor was Perast. A tiny fishing village on the bay (official population is less than 400), Perast is a popular…

Our hotel was located on the shore of the massive Bay of Kotor, named for a town at one of its eastern reaches. We drove over to Kotor one morning…

After a week in Slovenia we flew south to visit Montenegro. About the size of Connecticut, the small, mountainous country is a popular tourist spot for its low costs and…

Have you ever planned a day where you have lunch in one country and dinner in another? For our last day in Slovenia we drove west towards the coast to…

For Saturday we booked a guided wine tour out to the Vipava Valley. Our guide Tina took us to two small, family-owned wineries. On Sunday we drove our rental car…

For our Monday road trip we headed north to visit Lake Bled and Vintgar Gorge. As Slovenia is situated along the southern border of Austria, the northern areas of the…

For our 25th anniversary trip we spent two weeks visiting the former Yugoslavian countries of Slovenia and Montenegro. We started in the Slovenian capital of Ljubljana (Loo-blee-ah-nah). A former Roman…

In January Kim and I paid a visit to a part of South Florida that I hadn’t visited in some time and that Kim had never seen at all. We…

For our last day in Australia we did another coastal road trip. This time we headed to the southeast to visit the Mornington Peninsula, which is home to many of…