Remember that old express about a kid in a candy shop? That’s exactly how I felt getting a sneak preview of the Grand Egyptian Museum currently under construction on the outskirts of Cairo. I wasn’t around when Howard Carter famously discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922. But as a lifelong aficionado of just about everything pharaonic, […]
Category: Travel
Making Porsche Dreams Come True
It’s grand prix week in Los Angeles. But rather than watching the Indy cars zoom around the street course along the Long Beach waterfront, I’m up the road in Carson, behind the wheel of a Porsche 911 Carrera S hitting speeds approaching a hundred miles per hour. Not on the 405 freeway, mind you (although […]
Craig and Joe’s Excellent Road Trips. Podcast One: Nearly Died Trying
Joe Yogerst Talks Lakes on NPR’s “Here & Now”
If you didn’t catch my interview on NPR live on Monday (July 10th), here the link to the segment on the “Here & Now” website. Host Robin Young and myself talked about summer lake vacations and the impact that lakes have had on our respective lives. And I got a chance to plug my Nat […]
Apostles, Animals and Aerials Along Australia’s Southern Shore
I’ve been waiting beneath a eucalyptus tree for the better part of an hour at a place called the Koala Conservation Centre on Phillip Island in the deep south of Australia. Watching a mother koala and her infant, cute as can be, lounging around and chomping leaves. When all of a sudden there’s a blur […]