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Travel Stories, Cruise Reviews, and Cultural Adventures
Countries open up, cruising resumes, travel comes back in Covid times
Planning a return to Malta, here during an expedition to some of its famous caves, Christene "Cookie" Meyers and Bruce Keller rejoice on...
Christene Meyers
May 12, 20215 min read
Birthday bravo: Honoring Bruce Meyers' well lived life in the theater
Bruce Kemp Meyers celebrated life and shared his acting talents, despite chronic heart problems. Bruce Meyers played Daddy Warbucks in...
Christene Meyers
Mar 31, 20215 min read
Palms at Indian Head - Desert hotel offers boutique hideaway, mid-Century modern retreat
It's 5 p.m. and the sun is setting over the pool at The Palms at Indian Head. Diners are beginning to gather at distanced tables on the...
Christene Meyers
Mar 4, 20214 min read
Home on the range, COVID style: Montana's changed, nature remains
In the distance, center stage, Cookie greets the morning sun, mowing the lawn at High Chaparral, flanked by the mountains. BACK AT...
Christene Meyers
Jul 30, 20204 min read
Transplant triumph: Three years after brings reflection, change, gratitude
Bruce Keller and Christene "Cookie" Meyers with their elderly Yorkshire terrier, Nick, ready for a spin on their bikes. Leaving Scripps...
Christene Meyers
May 14, 20204 min read
Food glorious food -- sure cure for anxiety in Covid's troubled times
This produce stand in Bangkok also offered beautiful flowers for our hotel room -- and fruit for a midnight snack. This array of Dutch...
Christene Meyers
Apr 16, 20204 min read
World changes as virus dictates no human contact, stay at home, isolate
Bruce Keller and Christene (Cookie) Meyers are biking around the neighborhood, taking photos of what's happening. Nick, their remaining...
Christene Meyers
Mar 26, 20204 min read
Coronavirus shakes travel industry: go, stay home, cancel, plan a trip?
Italy is taking a terrible hit and is nearly closed down. Here, at the Colosseum in earlier times, crowds admire the ruins. The...
Christene Meyers
Mar 12, 20204 min read
Oregon Shakespeare Festival: world class theater offers quality, variety in sublime setting
The 2020 season at Oregon Shakespeare Festival includes ten promising productions in three venues. Here, the Allen Elizabethan Theatre...
Christene Meyers
Mar 6, 20205 min read
Nora's legacy: love, laughter, joie de vivre and lessons to us humans
Cookie cuddles not quite year-old Nick and Nora, after a bath in Davis, California. They were born there, September, 2005 WHAT A DOG,...
Christene Meyers
Jan 31, 20206 min read
Brit Speak, America Speak; same language, different meanings....
England-born Sue Speight and American Christene "Cookie" Meyers in York Minster, go back to back in an ancient part of the...
Christene Meyers
Jan 24, 20205 min read
Welk Theater's balm, calm, fun helps in best, worst times of our life
During a period of challenge, loss and tragedy, a fine production of "A Chorus Line" at Welk Theatre, buoys the spirits. This week's...
Christene Meyers
Jan 17, 20205 min read
Holidays abroad: Let yourself go, invent, try something new
When in Tuscany one Christmas, we took a vineyards and wine making tour. These lovely casks are in a Greve winery. A Cuban Christmas...
Christene Meyers
Dec 20, 20194 min read
Fountains Abbey: towering, vast, ancient link with a long ago time
+ Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal in Yorkshire is the largest of its kind in Europe, a vast ruin open to the sky. We visited with...
Christene Meyers
Dec 13, 20193 min read
York's Castles and great houses beckon -- with a visit to York Minster
Castle Howard's grand entrance and courtyards hosted the wedding reception of a famed British singer Ellie Goulding to a Sotheby's art...
Christene Meyers
Dec 6, 20194 min read
Rijsttafel anyone? Dutch specialty nods to Indonesian connection
As artfully designed Blue Pepper opens for the evening, Cookie pauses with staff to survey the Amsterdam restaurant. Awaiting the first...
Christene Meyers
Oct 24, 20194 min read
Appealing Amsterdam: Something for everyone in a lively Dutch city
The canals of Amsterdam are legendary, and much loved and used by tourists and residents alike. SOPHISTICATED, EXCITING AMSTERDAM:...
Christene Meyers
Oct 3, 20194 min read
Soothing surroundings of artists' home sets the tone for a creative day
The home of architect Wayne Gustafson and his artist wife Pamela is an oasis of calm and inspiration. INSPIRATIONAL HOME OF ARCHITECT AND...
Christene Meyers
Sep 5, 20193 min read
New York's Museum of the Dog is something to bark about
With her faithful service dog, a young visitor poses her animal next to a one of the AKC Dog Museum bronzes. DOG DEVOTEES DELIGHT IN...
Christene Meyers
Aug 29, 20193 min read
Italy's 'lagoon islands' -- beautiful Burano, Murano, Lido and Torcello
The quaint, colorful fishing village of Burano also boasts some of the world's finest lace and high-end clothing shops. MINUTES FROM...
Christene Meyers
Jul 25, 20193 min read
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