On a recent visit to Charleston, South Carolina, I bought a 2-day pass, called the Charleston Heritage Passport , at the North Charleston Visitor Center near the airport, and planned to include as many of the sites it offered of...
This past summer I'd spent a day wandering the streets of Banff with my dear friend, LestertheInvestor, and our lovely wives. Sylvia and I stopped by the Hudson Bay Co (HBC) store and spotted this clever display of blankets drapped over a canoe....
Seems not even the master Gumbo travel sleuths were able to crack our last puzzle. Gumbo was visiting the fascinating Museum of Ireland, Archaeology division, situated on Kildare Street in Dublin. The Archaeology Museum is housed...
When you come to Salvador you must spend at least a day walking around the Historic Center and The Pelourinho, The oldest parts of the city.
Charles Dickens has been a favourite British author of mine since high school. I have fond memories of getting lost reading A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations for hours; he was, after all, the most famed...
Skagway, Alaska owes its existence to the Klondike Gold Rush in the late 1800s. There were three main routes to the Klondike. One route was across Alaska. A second was the all-Canadian route starting at Edmonton and...
Copenhagen is an incredible city, a place where a rich history meets modern culture. The Danish capital boasts historic palaces and churches, sprawling gardens and parks, canals, and world-renowned fine dining. In preparing for my move here...
Early in my Gumbo career, I wrote about the big mud apartment blocks, called tulou, in the hill tribe region of southern China, photos of which compelled me to travel to Fujian Province. The route to the tulou went from San Francisco to...
The old town of Gjirokastra is one of the best-preserved examples of an Ottoman-style town in the Balkans. The town is packed with sights, and I recommend to do as we did; buy a map with the main sights. We also bought the book...
Barton Academy, 504 Government St. First Public School in Alabama I've walked on Government Street in Mobile Alabama four separate times. The funny thing is, as I finished up seeing the sights that I came for, I kept...
This story started out simple: A visit to a beautiful riverside plantation, renowned for its centuries-old formal gardens. But the past is usually not so simple, and in this instance involves not only the ugly story of the slavery that made...
The next leg of my trip was the shortest distance I had to drive, but it took the longest time. There was a lot to see along the way. Flagstaff AZ I was last in Flagstaff 20 years ago. It was a dismal depressed town in which nothing was...
Like so many of the great parks, Paris' Parc des Buttes Chaumont, seems to be at one with nature, or even to be nature itself. But while this park is beautiful, and a favorite of Paris families in the northeastern part of the city, it has a...
The Ksar of Ait Ben Haddou , designated a World Heritage Site since 1987, is a fortified city (or Ksar) located on the old caravan route between the Sahara and Marrakech in the foothills of the southern slopes of the High Atlas.
Christie's, the big London auction house, is selling vintage travel posters, including a number commissioned in the 1930s by Intourist, the official government travel agency. In various languages, including English, French and German they offer tours...