by Greg Masinton | Feb 22, 2017 | Travel
I guess I just don’t get it. Why is access to airport executive clubs so coveted, everyone think they are so great, and rush to them the second they arrive at the airport? You see them sneaking in with their black carry-on bags and laptop messengers, flashing...
by Greg Masinton | Jun 26, 2016 | Food and Wine, Travel, Wine
A not-so wise man once said, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around for a while, you could miss it.” Nowhere is that advice more needed than here in America. Nowhere is that advice more honored than in Paris. Paris is a busy, bustling city of over...
by Greg Masinton | Oct 28, 2015 | Travel
The day started out like so many others in my past. I woke to the sound of the phone alarm clock sounding at 7am (still 11pm at home and in the heart of your hero, having been in country only a day or so now) and had to resist the urge to throw the damn thing...
by Greg Masinton | Apr 30, 2015 | Travel
The greatest joy of traveling to foreign lands is affording yourself the opportunity to simply view and engage in different cultures, eat different foods, listen to different languages, stand out in a crowd, or do your best to fit in. That said, as glorious the...
by Greg Masinton | Apr 27, 2015 | Photography, Travel
Regarding travel photography, seriously, what is the deal with the picture taking? As we stood on the platform to catch our train to Rome some time ago, a platform that was amazingly small in a train station that was puny in a hill town that...
by Greg Masinton | Apr 21, 2015 | Travel
6:00am (10:00pm DT or Denver Time) We wake up in the Aklesia B&B in the Colosseum district of Rome to the sound of the iPhone alarm going off on the side of the bed. Snooze? Nah. Gotta get up, shower and hit the Metro station. I reach in to my backpack to find...
