Travel Stories, Cruise Reviews, and Cultural Adventures

A flurry of birds is caught in motion at a feeder at High Chaparral on the West Fork of the Stillwater River in Montana .       Story by Christene Meyers      Photos by Bruce Keller       AS LONG  as I can recall, birds have flitted around me, delighting and entrancing. In the mountains of Montana, the countryside of Tuscany, hiking trails in Ireland and Scotland, desert treks in Arizona, rain forests in Costa Rica, Peru and Brazil, I've always stopped to look, admire and a

Queen Califia's Magical Circle offers a colorful escape.            Story by Christene Meyers Photos by Bruce Keller      Days ago, we...

Story by Christene Meyers Photos by Bruce Keller       Cookie and Keller  enjoy sunset.       IF THE  airlines awarded miles for doggie travel, Nick and Nora would have logged over 50,000 miles each in their action-packed seven years. Mostly, they go where we go, by plane or car. They're happy little road-trippers. So we've started keeping track of the best of the "dog friendly" hotels we've visited recently.     We estimate that Nick and Nora have bedded down with us in

Yes, jalapeno makes a tasty, zingy, complex brittle. Chocolate candy, of course!  Photos by Bruce Keller  Story by Christene Meyers...

The Ashland Springs Hotel holds center stage on Main Street.     Writing by Christene Meyers    Photos by Bruce Keller        One of my favorite William Holden movies is "Shangri-la."  It's set in a Utopian village in the Himalayas and director Frank Capra captures beautiful mountains, soothing forests and low-hanging clouds that seem to say "touch me, come in, enjoy." It is a magical place.      Shangri-la lives! The hotel's gracious lobby is artfully decorated in the styl

Paradise Point on Mission Bay, and San Diego Bay offer treats galore, memorable sailing and a chance to learn the lingo Cap'n Keller...

One of our favorite sunset views is near the university above La Jolla shores. STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTOS By BRUCE KELLER      I...

COOKIE RECALLS MISS AMERICA, PROTESTS, PLAYBOY AND HER FEMINIST GROUNDING STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS THE SUMMER of 1968 was a memorable...

Bruce Keller and Nick and Nora enjoy the view and fresh air in Hellhole Canyon Preserve. A hitching post welcomes riders.                ...

By CHRISTENE MEYERS          SOMEHOW , some day, somewhere.      The lyrics to that memorable “West Side Story” song always make me...

Editor's Note: This story was written a few years before Meyers and Keller were married in a pop-up ceremony during a family reunion in her native state, Montana. STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS PHOTOS: VINTAGE and BRUCE KELLER The famous photo taken on VJ Day at Times Square,1945, inspired the "Kiss" sculpture that inspired this column. Top photo: Bruce Keller and Christene Meyers on a date in San Diego. THIS VALENTINE'S  week, with "The Kiss" statue back in San Diego, I'm taki

The Interlude on a happy outing in Mission Bay in this Bruce Keller photo.     Hark, now hear the sailors cry           smell the sea and...

STORY By CHRISTENE MEYERS      PHOTOS By BRUCE KELLER    Winter in the northern Rockies can be magnificent and frightening. It can...

If music be the food of love, play on!      Luckily for fans of early classical music, it's not too late to enjoy the brilliant...

You’ve got to love a town where National Public Radio news includes the morning surf report.  Start your San Diego day with the weather...