I like to keep the blog posts positive, but I have, on occasion, ranted about things. Well, really only about booking airline tickets . So a...

I am currently skimming The 10 Best of Everything by Nathaniel Lande and Andrew Lande. Interesting, their list of the 10 best airlin...

Oddly enough, the only direct train from Lisbon to Madrid , and vice versa, is a night train.  So, since we had no other way to get f...

Did you know that Lisbon's Oriente train station is as busy as Grand Central Terminal in New York? Lisbon Oriente Station On ...

This is not the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This is not Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro. Both of these landmark...

I love the ol' hop-on hop-off days of train travel with a Eurail Pass in Europe.  Those were the days when you really only had to make...

Many thanks to Mary Turner , author of the travel blog Travel With Teens and Tweens , for featuring my blog post My Teenager's First Sol...

My One Wish briefly came true.  I had no idea we had two seats in Business Class on our recent flight to New York until I looked at my tick...

Have we all gone mad? This post is part of Photo Friday at DeliciousBaby.com .

A fun post by  BootsnAll  about a year ago listed the World's 11 Coolest Train Stations.  Atocha Station in Madrid was one.  I liked the...

My kids playing on the moving walkway at DFW airport today.  This activity never seems to grow old.

Okay, what is up with Spain and Portugal?  Are they not friends?  Do they not share a peninsula?  Is there no Iberian brotherly love?  First...

The charming town of Thun (pronounced toon), Switzerland, might just be the perfect place to base yourself in the Bernese Oberland if you pr...