This is a trip few people have the opportunity to take so the audience for this information is small. Still, we learned a few things that may be of some use or interest.  Our Silversea expedition cruise to the Falklands, South Georgia, and Antarctica was from 3 to 21 February 2020 which is pretty much … Continue reading Antarctica Packing

My wife and I each used an eBags TLS Mother Lode Weekender Convertible backpack (https://www.ebags.com/product/ebags/mother-lode-tls-weekender-convertible/143101?productid=10362789 ) on our recent 3 week trip to Europe. Our trip included traveling around Italy by train for 10 days followed by a cruise from Venice to Athens, a total of 20 nights. We took everything for the trip in … Continue reading One Bag Packing 

Lots of old battle sites are in a field somewhere where you have to wonder what they were fighting about. Here the city surrounds the Alamo--nearly swallowing it, Confirming the stakes of those horrible days of death with the beat of each tourist's heart and the swipe of each credit card. America happened somehow though … Continue reading The River Walk San Antonio