Gasification and Making Things From Trash
Trash: Some of the very clever companies who are using gasification to create fuels from trash, another company making products from garbage.
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Dresden’s Military Museum Left Me Stunned
Military Museum in Dresden. The Militar Historiches Museum in Dresden, a dramatic display explores the horrors of war and historic artifacts.
Bonavista and Port Rexton on our NL Road Trip
Bonavista is a peninsula in Newfoundland, it is full of natural beauty and small villages like Port Rexton and is a tourism center in summer.
Green River Festival 2019 Highlights
Green River Festival 2019, with a wide selection of artists I’d never heard of, who were nearly all memorable and the great food made better.
Versailles: A Whole Lot to See, and a Palace
Versailles France is known for the incredible Palace of Versailles, there are also many things to see like Royal Kitchen Garden and shops.
Take a Ride in an Old Renault into the Champagne Vineyards
My Vintage Tour Company takes visitors in Reims, France out into the Champagne vineyards to taste the local bubbly and enjoy the beauty.
Some Random Thoughts about Traveling in Turkey
Random observations after a week of traveling in Turkey. One of the things I heard from some people who I told I was visiting this country was fear. To date, I can’t see why, since this country gets 34 million tourists a year and is very well set up for […]
Millpond Live Roars Out of the Gate This Saturday
Summer’s End Means Great Music in Easthampton It’s the end of the summer, and like most people, I’m sad about that. But the one thing that late August brings to the Valley is a series of wonderful outdoor concerts with well-chosen world music stars who make Easthampton’s Millpond Live series […]
Hiking from Breakfast to Dessert in Bregenzerwald
I met up yesterday with another local tourism official, Cornelia Kriegner, at my hotel, and we didn’t go out to her car, as I would expect. Instead, we waited for the local bus and rode it up a few miles past the village to a trailhead. Conny was taking me […]
The Sad Demise of Travel Sections and Magazines
Travel publishing and the demise of travel magazines and newspaper travel sections is a topic near and dear to my heart. I have witnessed it, and last month out in San Francisco, I got to speaking with Spud Hilton, the travel editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Hilton was interviewed […]
Fowler: Don’t Ask for Billion Dollar High Speed Rail
Carl Fowler is a railroad man. It’s in his blood and a proud part of his family history. He says that expecting billion dollar rail projects in 2018 is going to take too long. That we all should be working hard and advocating for regional rail. Slower railcars, like the […]
S. Deerfield: How To Bring More Businesses In?
I met with a group of landlords and other folks who live or own property in my village, South Deerfield this morning to discuss what we can do to help bring more businesses into town and make the downtown more inviting. Present were Rick and Julie Neylon, Town Administrator Wendy […]