Daily Wisdom

You wake up at Lisbon. You wake up at Barcelona. Lose an hour, gain an hour. This is your life, and it’s ending one minute at a time. You take the bus from the airport. Walk across a plaza. Check in. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. Another city tour. Hang out with two Kiwis afterwards. Getting the … Continue reading »

There is not much about Baltimore in the guide books. However, it has a frequent appearance in various movies and TV series. The best TV series ever, The Wire, takes place in Baltimore. The crimes shown there are actually not so exaggerated and this city is among the highest murder rates of all US cities. … Continue reading »

Seems like every major city claims to have its share as the cradle of the United States. With the Boston Tea Party’s first omission of a Bill of Rights, the First Constitution in New York and the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia and capital until it Washington, D.C. took over, Philly still plays a major … Continue reading »

My father told me we had a cousin Kenny and his wife Myra living in the proximity of New York. He supplied me with the postal and email address of him, so I could meet them up. Disorganized as I often am, I only contacted Kenny via email the morning we left Hicksville. At the … Continue reading »

A short drive from Warwick, Rhode Island to New London, Connecticut brought us to the first ferry for the day. We actually had booked for a later ferry, but as there was still space on the prior one, we could drive onto it just as we arrived at the ferry station, saving us another hour. … Continue reading »