Half Dome7
Yosemite Half Dome

Mountain Meadows...Ocean Meadows: Yosemite-Bend-Portland-Oregon Coast-San Francisco

Travel into personally heretofore unexplored territory on this 13-day chronicle of a road trip from the Los Angeles area through Yosemite and along the eastern edge of the Sierra Nevada to Portland Oregon and returning down the Oregon coast through San Francisco to Los Angeles.  The first leg in mountainous with the wide-open ranges anchored with farms, ranches, forestland and land-locked basins.  The second leg is coastal with penetrating estuaries followed by coastal forest anchored by dairy farms, logging, fishing and tourism.

Cloverdale-Tillamook Meadow
Cloverdale-Tillamook
St Tropez Grimaud Chateau
St. Tropez Grimaud Chateau Ruin

Provence in September

Discover the wonders of Southern France when you immerse yourself in this travelogue featuring over eighty photographs and communicating the pleasures of traveling this region.  It details the recollections, color, some history and highlights of Provence’s towns, villages and countryside. 

Pont de Gard2
Pont du Gard
Saint Sulpice Fountain and Tower
St. Sulpice

Paris in September

Imagine renting a flat in central Paris and indulging yourself with a weather-friendly, month-long exploration of this world-renowned tourist mecca and seat of French art, culture, commerce, government and history. Paris in September transports you through this indulgence with daily journals with photos of this dream vacation. Visit the iconic sites such as Notre Dame de Paris, the Louvre, Versailles, the Champs-Elysees and the Eiffel Tower. Take the Metro to the Cemetery Pere Lachaise to view the gravesites of Jim Morrison and Oscar Wilde. Attend a special exhibition to admire the Seventeenth Century canvasses of Caravaggio at the Museum Jacquemart-Andre. Catch the Bullet Train to London. Browse the sumptuous Galeries Lafayette on Boulevard Haussmann or a rolling market in the Butte-aux-Cailles neighborhood. Find a front-row café seat on the Rue Montorgueil and enjoy a Belgian blond beer while watching the Parisians out for a Saturday evening. Experience this travelogue and, then hopefully inspired, plan your very own getaway.

Cafe de Flore Saint-Germain-des-Pres
Cafe de Flore Saint-Germain-de-Pres Paris