The ruby slippers have come home, just like Dorothy and her little dog Toto.

You don’t have to travel to Washington D.C. or Philadelphia to be involved up close and personal to rescue and make more publicly available, America’s most seminal historic documents of the prior 200-plus years.

In a recent first visit to Mobile, Alabama, a port city of 195,000 on the shores of Gulf of Mexico, the downtown architectural styles and vibe kept reminding me of another place. Then there were the street names: Royal, Dauphin, St. Louis, and Joachim, with black wrought iron balconies over …

On the eve of our planned trip last week to our favorite August destination, Canada’s Waterton National park, the horrific California forest fires, peripheral in our thoughts, came to our full attention.

If your travel is confined to business, the “standard” hotels or chains suffice.

Fourth of July seems an ideal day to remember for America’s 35th President; the youngest President ever elected, and the first and only Roman Catholic: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917-1963).

Once a year, on two successive weekends, embassies in Washington, D.C., open their doors to the general public.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome aboard Silversea Cruises' Silver Galapagos. On behalf of our expedition team, we're delighted to have you with us for the next seven days. We look forward to sharing with you this incredible destination known as a 'world unto itself.’"

If you want to include a bit of LBJ Texana when you are visiting Washington, don’t look in the U.S. Capitol “corridors of power” where Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973) once reigned supreme as “Master of the Senate;” and from 1963-69 served as the 37th president of the United States.

If you think you’ll probably not get to visit Cuba in person, but you remain curious, you can substitute a “next best thing” right here in the Galveston-Houston area by visiting the Houston Museum of Fine Arts exhibit of Cuban art through May 21.

It is an ideal family destination because of the variety of attractions. If it is a rainy day, as it often is in the UK, many attractions are indoors. Further, if you’ve been to London multiple times, Greenwich has a tranquil off-the-beaten path ambiance.

Editor’s note: This is part three of a three-part series.

The Milan reporter asked Alex, press rep for Highclere owners Lady Carnarvon and her husband the Earl, if we could see the Egyptian collection from King Tutankhamun’s tomb at Highclere.

America generated many of humanity’s most useful and stunning inventions: mass produced automobiles, telephone, electricity, flight, television, the internet and Google — to cite just a savvy few.

These 5,000 year old stone slabs are as famous as Britain’s Stonehenge — and unlike fenced in do-not-touch Stonehenge, visitors can actually walk up and touch the Standing Stones of Callanish, which are as old as Egypt’s pyramids.

Geisha are women who have been trained in the traditional Japanese arts of makeup, costume, singing, music and dance so that they can be entertaining to men of distinction (wealth and power). Geisha are expensive to employ and usually the only people who can afford them are the equivalent of CEOs.