Recently a rather tall but ill-suited Subscriber said to me "Sir! You write the greatest words about travel since Mark Twain. Thank you sir!"¹ While this compliment wasn't unexpected, it reminded me that Twain's birthplace was but 177 miles from my home (Hmmm, we're both citizens of the Show Me State?) and maybe I needed to visit to better understand the man and his prose and more importantly if it could improve mine. Much like my visit to Omaha, I decided to try and walk in Samuel Clemens...

Who is Amelia Earhart? A record-breaking female aviator whose international fame improved public acceptance of aviation and paved the way for other women in commercial flight. A woman who disappeared without a trace over the Pacific. I decided to visit her birthplace, Atchison, KS to find out a little more about the former. As to the later, while some people believe that Earhart's plane crashed into the Pacific Ocean, others believe she landed in the Marshall Islands, was taken prisoner by...

While many use the Christmas season to spread good will , express their affections to loved ones and pray for world peace, I have used it to paint the inside of my entire home. Therefore Mrs. AAR and I spent it in Chicago while looking forward to a New Year filled with Sherwin-Williams Alabaster (SW 7008) . Since we would be staying for a week or so, I wanted a place large enough to spread out, nice enough for the Missus and in or about the Loop . After an extensive search on Booking, I...