We decided to visit our son, who moved to San Francisco for his work. It had been a long time since we visited with him there, so Karen decided she wanted to do something special for him. She found a list of Michelin Star restaurants and asked him to select one. He chose Sorrel. Investigating what he was getting us into, we discovered that we were going to be presented with a…
A number of years ago we did a private tour of Sicily which has never been forgotten. Giuseppe was both our driver and guide. The thing we always harken back to was while we met Giuseppe in Palermo to begin our adventure, we asked if we could stop in Corleone along the way. The terse response was ‘My father is not respected in Corleone.’ Obviously, we never toured the hillsides where Michael…
Morocco has been on our short list for years. A friend from work had lived there for two years during the deployment one of the first satellite telephone systems years ago. He had described it as one of the most fascinating places he’d ever lived. He was originally from Poland and had lived all over the world, so I always saw his interest in the county as intriguing. On a recent trip…
If you’re like us, you had plans for 2020. You watched as those plans changed, day by day and week after week. By May it was clear travel to the distant locations for which we had already purchased tickets in the first few months of the year was not going to happen. Tickets were cashed in, reservations cancelled, and tours called off. Welcome to the alternative reality science fiction writers have…
At the end of our anniversary trip we arranged a van from Positano Car Service, Via Cristoforo Colombo, 2 84017 Positano (Sa) Italy www.positanocarservice.com, to transport the six of us from Positano to Rome directly. Our driver was Enrico who provided our last lingering looks at the pastel blue waters, high rocky mountains with homes, restaurants and shops, hanging off at impossible angles, and the rock outcrop where two natural tunnels have…