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…

On one of our last days in town we booked a tour out to the Yarra Valley for wine tasting. The full-day trip took us to three wineries, one chocolate…

We set out early one morning and headed west to the Great Ocean Drive. The 150-mile road is a major tourist attraction and in some sections the traffic slowed our…