The Kimbell Art Museum is by far the best museum in Fort Worth, second in North Texas only to the Dallas Museum of Art. This modern building, designed by Louis Kahn, is divided into two halves; one wing for East Asia, the other wing dedicated to Europe. On the right side, there are statues from … Continue reading Fort Worth Side Trip: Kimbell Art Museum
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art is located outside of downtown Fort Worth, in its renowned cultural district. Here, you can tour collections full of American artworks from the Old West to the modern era. It has an impressive collection of Western memorabilia, including works by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell. I came … Continue reading Fort Worth Side Trip: Amon Carter Museum of American Art
The aptly-named Modern Art Museum has a lovely courtyard with a rippling lake along the side, which moves every time a breeze runs across. We entered the museum on Friday night, when admissions for the lower floor are free. Modern art is not my specialty, but I went in with an open mind. There was … Continue reading Fort Worth Side Trip: Modern Art Museum
Leaving Paris on the earliest Eurostar out of Gare Du Nord, we embarked on the four hour breeze from Paris to London. The next day, our transatlantic ship would be raising anchor in Southampton, a port on the English Channel, for New York City. That gave us less than a day to explore London, the … Continue reading Operation Transatlantic: One Night In London
With its train station close to the resorts, walking to the train to Paris was simple and easy. With trains that run frequently, the train ride from Disneyland to Paris was an hour in duration. However, I feel that this was actually a subway train dressed in another name, because as we neared the city … Continue reading Operation Transatlantic: The French Capital
Not many people say they've spent Christmas fishing at Disney World, but somehow we managed to do it. Out of pressuring from my brother, we booked a guided fishing excursion out of Wilderness Lodge across the Bay Lake on Christmas Day to try my hand at bass fishing. Down at the hotel's marina, we waited … Continue reading Operation Waterfront: Christmas Fishing
The Kings Creek Station (no apostrophe) is a wide open space in the middle of the desert where several of us had a chance to throw our wooden boomerangs from the Cairns Night Markets. It was good fun throwing them around the field in our campsites, and although we broke most of them, we had … Continue reading Operation Cassowary: Eating Live Worms That Taste Like Raw Eggs
