For the past three months I have been getting a taste of what retirement might look like.   And let me tell you,  I don’t like it much!  ...

Have you ever wondered just how the man most widely perceived as our best US President,  managed to triumph in a field of four...

The annual announcement of the Top 100 Events in North America by the American Bus Association (ABA) is eagerly awaited each fall by the...

I read recently that, according to a Netherlands travel study (plus followup research conducted by psychologist and consultant Shawn...

In this age of social media, with millions of people posting their innermost thoughts on Twitter or Facebook, in blogs, or some other...

People are funny. You can quote me on that if you’d like. As a travel professional I have frequent opportunities to indulge my passion...

I have been writing a regular monthly blog now for the past four years. It has been both challenging and rewarding. But it is also...

If you have ever surfed the upper reaches of the cable channels in desperate search of semi-literate diversion, you have probably run...

At a recent history conference I learned – among other things – that the stereotypical movie depiction of circling the wagons against an...

I have been leading modern-day explorers over the Lewis & Clark Trail more or less regularly since 1997, and as you read this I have...

Confucius didn’t think so. Neither did Gandhi nor Mother Teresa. Of course, taking a vow of poverty kind of takes money out of the...

There is a wildly popular restaurant near me that offers only two entrees on its evening menu: big steak and little steak! In this day of...

When I was growing up I couldn’t wait for summer vacation so that I could escape my parents’ contentious and migratory household to spend...

For many people, myself included, the most joyous words in the English language are “Pitchers and catchers report!”  I have been...

When we were first developing the Lewis & Clark Trail as a Vanishing Trails Expedition I kept track of all the books I read in my...

One could argue – I would – that some of the most enjoyable days I’ve spent on tour were those covering many miles of what early settlers...

When I started my travel blog a couple of years ago, it seemed only natural to call it “Trail Talk”. After all, Shebby Lee Tours...

Antiques Road Show was here this summer. I don’t know what took them so long. They’d already been to Bismarck – a town half the size of...

The conventional wisdom is that a successful blogger produces some words of wisdom every single day, but if you are a regular reader, you...

There is a category of my business known as “adventure travel”. It evokes images of llama trekking in the Andes, zip-lining across the...