“What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.” ~Jack Kerouac, On The Road The sun was in full splendor … Read More
Looking like a sundial against the bright morning sky, the Budapest Eye greeted us from a park across the street from our hotel. Herb and I had spent the night at Kempinski Hotel Corvinus on the “Pest” side of the city, where Crystal had secured rooms for about half of its Budapest travelers. I was … Read More
It wasn’t quite the way I’d envisioned arriving in this grand city on the Danube. But with water levels precariously low, our river boat couldn’t safely make the trip from Bratislava. Instead, we set out by bus, a two-and-a-half-hour journey that took us past flat green farmland, small vineyards and rows of hard-working windmills. We … Read More