Perhaps our Teutonic surname granted some pull with our host, but the Alpenblick Hotel gave us one of their few rooms with a nice Matterhorn view.   Marcy and I continued our train trip through Switzerland today as we rolled our suitcases the few meters…

Day five of our river cruise finds us at Passau, Germany where the Inn and Ilz Rivers join the Danube. Passau has a lovely skyline featuring the onion domes and clock tower of St. Stephens Cathedral. Churches on this site date to the year 730…

The sun has just dropped below the horizon along the Danube, and we enjoy the melancholy blue light of dusk.  We’ve had some lovely evenings here , but last night was particularly nice.  There are no particularly quaint church steeples to photograph at this instant,…

I reflect on images I see at the Birkenau Death Camp site near Auschwitz

I reflect on our visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Death Camps

We encounter a beautiful male black bear with a plaintive look on his face in Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.