BACK FROM THE DEAD
Among car collectors, automobile resurrection’s the fountain of youth dream. Bring a rusty old “barn find” into the shop and it emerges, Phoenix like, with a luscious body of automotive […]
BIG TRIPS REQUIRE THE EINSTEIN TRAVEL BUREAU
I just finished the book TIME TRAVEL IN EINSTEIN’S UNIVERSE: If you are into unimaginable places to visit, getting off the beaten path or going where no man has gone […]
WHAT CAN 100 COUNTRIES DO FOR YOU?
Minako and I completed our travel bucket list when we put travel pin number 100 into the map. Didn’t make us rich, famous or beautiful but still it was a […]
THEY’RE HAPPY AND DON’T FEEL YOUR PAIN
We visited northern Iceland this summer. In two backwater cities on northern coast, Sigulfjorour and Isafjourour we found stories that were both familiar and instructive. These towns are the most […]
RESURRECTING A GHOST TOWN
The City of Putnam, Connecticut, was washed up. Like many New England textile mill towns, it once stood tall as part of America’s industrial revolution. During the 1950’s the mills moved south and then on to the Far East. Trains came no more. The waterwheels stopped and the proud, redbrick […]
HOW DO YOU LOOK ON GOOGLE EARTH?
From the Google Earth photo, we all appear as passive little ants on the planet. But something’s wrong with this picture. I protest the thought of being a passive rider on our […]