I suppose every town has its well-known eccentrics, but few leave a legacy more...
Blogs linked to my articles published elsewhere
One of the most striking features of George Washington’s Mount Vernon is its grand...
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...
I’ve always wondered what it must be like to live in a town overrun...
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...
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...
Sintra was the playground of Portugal’s 19th-century rich, which explains why it has...
If you like Malbec, there’s no finer place to sample some of the world’s...
I’ve always been a strictly beer, wine, and milk(!) kind of gal. But...
Japan’s first contact with the Western world was in 1543 with the arrival of...
The horrific tsunami that swept across Iwate Prefecture and other areas of Tohoku’s coast...
Yes, vintage American cars show up on virtually every website post or magazine...
I’m a very slow eater, so there was no question I was going to...
The Space Needle was built in 1962 for the World’s Fair. But it has...
As many as five cruise ships dock at Cozumel daily, yet it’s easy to...
Japan set a goal of 20 million foreign visitors by 2020, when Tokyo will...
It’s easy to get depressed by today’s news and seemingly unbridgeable political divide. But...
It’s hard to imagine a more perfect setting than Key West for a multi-generational...
Before I went to Mackinac Island, I pictured it as largely flat, dominated by...
Baracoa was established in 1511 as Spain’s first settlement in Cuba, but then it...
