Béla Bartók needed a quiet environment to compose. From April 1932 to October 1940 he found solace in a house that used to be in the...

Today was a treat for both eyes and ears. We toured two spectacular music facilities—the Budapest Opera House and the Liszt Ferenc...

My very first glimpse of Budapest was a dark one. The plane from London landed at 12:30 AM. By the time we checked into the hotel, it was...

I am sitting in the Kempinski Hotel Coravinus waiting for a bus to take me to the MS Joy, the river boat upon which I'll be staying for a...

After getting an okay sleep on the plane from San Jose to Heathrow, I awoke to a flight attendant offering me coffee and a breakfast...

On January 16, 2023, Captain Oliver nosed the National Geographic Endurance into the Ross Ice Shelf. With this act, our ship became the...

When I signed on for a 32-day expedition cruise from Ushuaia, Argentina, to Dunedin, New Zealand, the possibility of a sea rescue never...

Music, music, music. What can I say? My friend Alan says “Music is my life’s blood.” I agree with him. But that can take the form of...

I continue to strive for 10,000 steps per day. I took this image on the night of December 24, but it still represents this year’s...

Entertainment covers a lot of ground. In this post I will ignore any streaming binges or serials that I’ve watch this year and instead...

Community work isn’t something I’ve written about since I’ve been doing retrospectives. Dut my activity is picking up so I thought I’d...

I spent a fair amount of time this year on photography, both taking workshops and capturing images. I started the year with an Equatorial...

This year we are back to pre-pandemic travel. Most of our travel was by car, to places in California, but we also went to Seattle three...

I was invited to give two presentations about past travel, the first for the Georgia Photography Club, a member of the Photographic...

My reading list reflects gifts I’ve been given, places I travel to, things I want to learn, book reviews I’ve read, and a few books I’ve...

The Photographic Society of America (PSA) has a 365 Day Project for photographers to submit an image a day for a year. PSA supplies a...

Since 2019 I’ve begun each year by writing about my accomplishments. I find that looking back on all the things I’ve done over the past...

A few years back I watched Werner Herzog’s Encounters at the End of theWorld, a fascinating look at life in Antarctica. I knew he was...

If you own a globe, as I do, you'll know that Antarctica gets skewered in such a way that is it difficult to view the entire continent....

As I gather things to pack for a very long trip to Antarctica, the weight of each item is on my mind. I have a 50 pound limit for my...