Appenzell Innerrhoden (also known in English as Appenzell Inner Rhodes) is a half canton in Switzerland. I won’t go into history here, but Switzerland consists of 26 cantons of which six are half cantons (they are divided mostly for historical and religious reasons). Half cantons have their own state...

Combining travel with art is always high on my list. Especially when I have the opportunity to visit an artist’s home country or even the city he was born in.

In Switzerland, I made it a point to explore the Paul Klee Center in Bern. The building itself is very modern and its silver, rolling shape...

Agadir, located in the south of Morocco, did not strike me as a model out of A Thousand and One Nights. On the contrary, the modernity of the city was rather a disappointment. After the disembarkment from our ship, the Marco Polo, we were shuttled along a three-mile stretch of dusty roadwork before we...

Even though it is a beautiful morning, the waves are rolling high as we enter Porto Grande on the island of Sao Vicente. Soon we are surrounded by soft, brown hills on three sides as we glide closer towards Mindelo, the capital of this small island, which belongs to Cap Verde.
Leaving the port, we immediately...

I just got back from my trip to Switzerland, Spain, Morocco and Brazil.
While for some of you this continent hopping is a usual occurrence, it still amazes me how easy traveling has become, and how much we can see in one trip.
Over the next few weeks, I will share some of my pictures with you....

Since I am living in Middle Tennessee, near Nashville, I spend a lot of time walking in this area. Today I took one of my dogs to Edwin Warner Park on Highway 100 in Nashville. I literally gasped when I spotted a barn owl sitting on a 10-foot tree next to the walkway! It was 9:30 a.m., and the owl was...

Sometimes you just have to get away from the daily grind, out into the quiet of nature. While I usually take one or two of my dogs and go for a walk along Cumberland River, this time I joined a friend on a two-hour boat cruise on the very same water way that influences my life so deeply.

What a...

I had no clue how many barrel organ enthusiasts roam through Europe in the hope to exhibit their musical treasure boxes, until my uncle dragged me to a small town in the Toggenburg valley in northeastern Switzerland. Lichtensteig, the location of the annual Barrel Organ Market, would not qualify...

When I was little, we had five restaurants, two bakeries, one butcher shop, and one cheese maker in our little Swiss village. The cheese maker is now gone, but the village’s character remains seemingly undisturbed. I moved to the United States 12 years ago and was not able to visit my home country...

I’ve undertaken several fruitless attempts to describe my church tower adventure as a travel story. Now I’m at the point of giving up. Nonetheless, I want to share my little excursion in which I persuaded my American friend to join me in climbing the 500-year-old steeple of the Swiss Catholic...

Just as Americans who first hear about Switzerland think of clocks, chocolate and cheese, when I envisioned Texas, I saw imaginary cowboys chasing after large cattle herds through grassy bush land or oil tycoons reigning over multi-billion estates the way J.R. Ewing did in the TV show Dallas. That...

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I'm looking forward to being a part of this network.

J