Travel and Leisure blog
My brother Miguel met me in Vienna toward the end of January 2017. We spent two nights in Vienna and then took a train to Budapest. Of course, we grabbed a piece of the famous Sachertorte cake, It’s a chocolate cake that looks similar to a torte, but without a crust. The Austrian Franz Sacher […]
Our driver met us at our Hampton Inn hotel in Krakow on March 11 2019, then loaded all our belongings into his car. I chose My Day Trip because I had Fiorella with me and Onawa, it’s not easy flying with Onawa from Poland, she’s a little taller than airline cabin restrictions. We needed to […]
My first memory of encountering someone from Bulgaria was in a London airport duty free. I was headed to Vienna to meet my brother for a trip. I opened the conversation about the EU and the Bulgarian was eager to share his experiences with the negative changes in Bulgaria since joining the union. The plight […]
I met Onawa in 2014, it was early spring and the warm air inspired a nice long walk around the neighborhood with my big dog Ouroboros. We were almost home when we spotted a young girl with a stroller. We both curiously looked inside it and saw a batch of eight tiny puppies. Their eyes […]
We arrived in Zadar in June 2019, Onawa was tired and lethargic the first two days. I thought it might be overheating from the difference of temperature between Tara, Bosnia and the Croatian coast. I took her on a few walks, but she wasn’t herself. On the third day of being in Zadar she stopped […]
In February 2010 I was living in Hollywood Florida with my ferrets Baby and Lola. I had a meeting in Miramar with my business partner of the time. On my way home I saw a dog in the road, a big red dog. I got out and yelled at him to go home. He looked […]
Try pronouncing that one! Trans [over, across] + Făgăraș the mountains) or Highway DN7C. This is a cool road! The paved mountain road starts off the main highway. It takes you gradually from wooded forests into a lake with an amazing dam and up and up as the roads switchback all the way up. Eventually […]
I gathered my friend and mother for a road trip from Bulgaria to Romania over the summer of 2018. We took a small bus to Bucharest where we stayed for three nights. I wanted to organize our stay there for a break between the road trips. The plan was to go to Sibiu and the […]
We arrived in Traverse City Michigan in April 2018. The drive from New York was long, but the food along the way made the ride easier. We had hoagies in western Pennsylvania, I tried my first pickled egg. I had no idea pickled eggs were good! In Ohio we had chicken fried potato wedges. We […]
In July 2018 we visited our friend Mike in Del Norte Colorado. A place we learned was our Apache heritage’s old home before they were pushed out by another tribe into New Mexico. We were driving west from Michigan on our way to Denver which made the stop to visit him for 4th of July […]