I thoroughly enjoyed my visit to The Henry Ford, a 250-acre complex in...
Destinations
I used to associate bobbleheads with those figures I saw as a child in...
Most of Japan’s history–skirmishes and wars between feudal lords, legends surrounding ancestors of the...
Every city changes with the passage of time, but it’s hard to imagine a...
There’s never been an Olympics like this one. Delayed a year because of the...
If you were Black living in Tulsa 100 years ago, chances are you lived...
I suppose every town has its well-known eccentrics, but few leave a legacy more...
One of the most striking features of George Washington’s Mount Vernon is its grand...
It was to be our one big splurge, a beach getaway from our...
Travel around the globe necessarily ground to a stop with the onslaught...
Porto is Portugal’s portal to port wine. It also has one of the most...
I don’t know how many times I’ve returned to Kakunodate over the past...
As a travel writer specializing in Japan, I know I can never match the...
I’ve always wondered what it must be like to live in a town overrun...
Gone are the traveling days of steamer ships and mountains of Louis Vuitton trunks,...
I’d never been to Cleveland, so about the only thing I knew for sure...
When I first came to Tokyo in the mid 1980s, I stayed with a...
Nine years have passed since Japan’s northeastern coast was hit by a triple...
For the longest time, it seemed like I could talk hardly anyone into visiting...
Cincinnati and Cleveland get all the glory–or at least the sports fans, though I...
In a nation famous for its high-tech bidet toilets, Tokyo is apparently also...
One of my most sensuous memories is of a tree, in a forest of...
Be More Japan, a hardback with lots of graphics covering a wide range...
