I’ve played the piano since I was five, and the violin since I was eight. So visiting Vienna during a trip to Central and Eastern Europe...

On a trip to Toronto, I decided that the second thing I would do (after ascending the CN Tower) would be to visit the Hockey Hall of...

On my first safari trip, one of the camps was considered a water camp. I didn’t understand at the time that meant it was known for...

On my first safari trip, I stayed in three camps in Botswana and then made the (short) trek to Zimbabwe to see Victoria Falls. I was told...

There are some places in the world that can make a person seem uneducated, or naive, or just plain unknowledgeable. One example is seeing...

Let’s be honest...it wasn’t THE Oval Office. But it was the Oval Office replica at a Presidential Library, something I highly recommend...

It might have been one of the creepiest faces I've ever stared into. The bloodied face of an African wild dog, and so many of them that...

Have you ever traveled to a place that looked more like a fantasyland out of a theme park? That's how I felt in Prague in the Czech...

No matter what religion you connect with, or even if you don't connect with any at all, you can't deny that a visit to Jerusalem still...

I'm not a cat person. I like dogs. I got to see both while on safari. The wild dogs always gave us a great show with their hunts. But the...

On my very first day on safari, I saw nearly everything I had ever hoped to see. We saw elephants on the way from the airstrip to the...

I knew very little about Krakow, Poland, before I went there. While planning my trip, I learned that it was where Oskar Schindler's...

Petra in Jordan was the furthest I had ever been from home until I went on safari in Africa. After a 4-hour bus ride from Jerusalem,...

A tour of the Vatican can take most of the day, and it is absolutely worth it. When there, the grottos underneath the main floor of St....

If you asked me for an accurate profile (pun intended!) of a lion when I was younger (and way before my first safari), I wouldn't have...

Look at these two! I image them as teenagers who met one day out in the bush and developed a life-long friendship. Were they sharing the...

By the time I got to my third camp on that safari trip, I thought I was prepared for seeing the animals in camp. In fact, at the previous...

So many people ask me if I was scared seeing the wildlife in Africa up close. Never once, I tell them. For the most part, the animals...

When I finally decided the time was right to go on safari, I followed the advice of more experienced safari travelers and decided on...

The US Open Tennis Tournament is played in New York City every late August/early September. While the word on this once hidden gem in New...