Fox News Alert

OK – I know. We post these fox pictures every year during our Prince Edward Island visit, but they are always great fun to shoot. When we get home, we realize that the ones we have aren’t sharp or could be better. This is maybe my 10th try and Marcy has a batch as […]
TRAVEL TIPS

To be honest, I have worked on this post for a long time. I wondered if anyone really cared about foreign credit card and money issues, and didn’t want to labor too long if the topic was not useful, but then a friend asked our opinion last week so I figured that it might […]
ITALY ON A BUDGET

Marcy called me at work one afternoon last fall and announced that Gate1 Travel was having a flash sale for independent travel to Italy – just $499 for an 8 day “Heart of Tuscany” tour including airfare from New York, car, hotel, and breakfast. It sounded way too good to be true, but we called […]
THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAIN EXPRESSWAY

The Appalachian Development Highway System is a network of road improvements in the eastern mountains designed to provide safe and reliable transportation to and through undeveloped areas. The system is segmented into corridors which trace routes through particular regions. Corridor K of this system bears the much more romantic name of the Great Smoky Mountain […]