Downtown Las Vegas

There are different sections to Las Vegas. The one most of us likely think of when we hear “Las Vegas” is known as The Strip.The original town of Las Vegas (known as Downtown) is a city bus ride or a car trip just north of The Strip. Welcome to a glimpse of Downtown Las Vegas. Driving […]

A Glimpse of Las Vegas

Let’s take a “quick” walk down The Strip in Las Vegas. I put “quick” in quotations because distances in Vegas are deceptive… “The hotel is just over there, we can walk.” becomes “Why did we not take a cab!” when 40 minutes later you are still walking and not yet at the destination that seemed […]

Worldwide Tour

Short of time travel, do you think you could visit all these places/do all these things in one day? Ride in a gondola… Cross the Rialto Bridge… Go up the Eiffel Tower… Have supper in Piazza Saint Marco… Admire the pyramids and Sphinx… Stroll around the Colosseum… Visit with some penguins…. AND admire New York’s […]

Want to buy a carpet?

Attending a carpet show seems to be on most guided tours of Morocco…so let’s attend one. Leaving the busy street we climb up a staircase… and enter a large room. Notice the walls are covered with carpet. Our host enters and begins an interesting talk about the carpet industry in Morocco. We learn a lot […]

Auckland Museum

Located on a prominent rise in the Auckland Domain (the city’s oldest park) is this striking building.    It is the Auckland War Memorial Museum…also known simply as Auckland Museum. From the grounds one can look out over the green of The Domain and off in the distance see the downtown. The exterior of the […]

Travel Quiz 32 answer

So you think you know where this photo was taken and who the men are. To recap, here is the photo we are talking about. To check where we took the photo you will have to search this page. Happy travels! Check out other travel quizzes…click here.

Auckland NZ part 3

Our hop- on hop-off bus takes us along Tamaki Drive on the waterfront… Past Okahu Bay where we find Kelly Tarlton’s Sea Life Aquarium… and up the hill to Bastion Point and the Michael Joseph  Savage Memorial Park. (Michael Joseph Savage is a much respected Prime Minister of New Zealand.) The view from up here at Bastion […]

Auckland part 2

Downtown Auckland is walker friendly. Yes, I know there are some gentle hills but they are not very steep. If I can handle them almost anyone can! And for some of the steeper inclines it often is possible to cut through a building that has escalators that take you from one level to another. The Sky Tower […]

Sky Tower in Auckland

Driving into Auckland New Zealand you are sure to notice the Sky Tower. It truly stands out on the horizon. It reminds one of the KL Tower in Kuala Lumpur, and the CN Tower in Toronto, and the Calgary Tower in Alberta. But we are in Auckland, New Zealand so this must be the Sky Tower. […]

Terracotta Warriors

Near China’s ancient capital of Xian, one can visit an army of terracotta soldiers. Ready to travel back…way back? to the 3rd century BC? Flying there from Bejing will take about two hours in the air. Then join a guided tour (or if you are lucky enough to have friends in China, they may take you). A […]

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