January 2, 2018
Following is a piece that will be included in “Pastel and Pen,” a collection of my writing paired with selected pastel drawings by Gregg Simpson. “Pastel and Pen: Two Ways of Seeing” will be published by New Arcadia Publishing in Spring, 2018. This piece is accompanied by Gregg Simpson’s pastel entitled San Gimignano shown below. I alternate travel writing about modern San Gimignano with a fanciful journey seven hundred years into the past. The hill town of San Gimignano is famous worldwide as the […]
May 16, 2017
Our five-week trip to Europe has been a whirl of professional development and business activities sprinkled liberally with many, many great travel […]
April 30, 2017
We are spending nine nights in Rome in April of 2017 during an exhibition of Gregg Simpson’s paintings at the Arte Borgo […]
March 21, 2016
Our three-week odyssey is winding down. After leaving Rotorua, we have just six nights left before we must fly home to Vancouver. […]
March 18, 2016
We are in the simmering center of the North Island. We spend two nights cavorting among the volcanoes in Tongariro National Park and […]
March 17, 2016
After arriving back from our Abel Tasman tour, I throw a few loads of laundry into the machines at the Grand Mercure […]
March 17, 2016
It’s evening of Day 6 and two sturdy black carry-on style duffle bags are waiting for us in our room when we […]
March 13, 2016
Blog 2 of our New Zealand Adventure starts on Day 4 still in Queenstown, then moves up to Wanaka and out to […]
March 8, 2016
After a pleasant fourteen-hour flight that involves a surprising amount of sleep in addition to three feature-length movies, we land in Auckland, […]
September 15, 2015
Here in no particular order, are my suggestions for the top ten things to do in Venice. 1. Buy A Vaporetto Pass […]
