When my wife was a little girl, she arranged to exercise a horse owned by a man who lived in a rural area a few miles from her home. Of course, as a horse crazy young woman, she did it for free. When the man returned from a European trip, he brought her a small…
If you have never been on a long-distance train, I’ll acknowledge you might have a hard time understanding how anyone could justify taking three days to cross the country when it can be done in only six hours by plane. And I’m guessing much of that hesitancy is because you have an image of spending…
My first trip to Europe was in the summer of 1954. The American Field Service ran an exchange-student program in those days, with American kids going to Europe to live with a local family for the summer and European kids coming to the U.S. for the full school year. I applied and requested that I be…
It’s great fun and a good feeling when you’re able to fulfill a long-held desire to visit or see some specific place or event. Over the years, I’ve been awfully lucky in that regard. For instance, a dozen or so years ago, during a three-day stop-over in Vienna, my wife and daughter and I managed…