The New York Botanical Garden is a treasure by itself, but adding the brilliant jewels created by glass sculptor Dale Chihuly makes the shine even brighter. His colorful and impressive works decorate the garden and especially the conservatory, where they nestle among the greenery or float in ponds, competing with mother nature. The exhibit closes…
A TAUCK TOUR OF YELLOWSTONE & THE GRAND TETONS, August 22-30, 2017 (Photos not otherwise credited are by the author. Click on the photos to enlarge them and read the captions, and scroll through a series using your keyboard arrows. Feel free to comment or correct any errors). I had marveled at magazine photos of…
(All photos by the author. Click on them to enlarge and read the captions. Forgive me for not switching to a Portuguese keyboard so the text is missing proper accents and diacritical marks). I spent four days in Lisbon in May 2016 and it sparked my interest in seeing more of Portugal. Additionally, my bio…
(All photos by the author. Click on them to enlarge them and to read the captions, and use your arrows to scroll forward and reverse. I did not switch to a Portuguese keyboard so the text lacks proper accents and diacritical marks). Friends who had visited the Portuguese island of Madeira had raved about it…
My guidebook to Cuernavaca includes a list of my favorite places in Mexico City and Acapulco. See https://jimhornnews.com/guide. But I want to share this tip with my readers who frequent the Pacific paradise. I stay in a wonderful condo with a 180-degree view of the bay, but it’s not on the water. Some of the…
UPDATE: As of July 2018, just in time for school vacations, the toll for the tunnel went up from 30 pesos to 58 pesos; that’s 116 pesos round trip. School vacation time is the busiest season in Acapulco after Easter week and Christmas. Yet on July 30 during my roundtrip there was no other car…
This post was reprinted in edited form in LIVE & INVEST OVERSEAS, Feb. 13,2013. It is being updated in November 2016 because of the huge increase in the value of the dollar against the peso. In January 2015 the exchange rate was 14.5 pesos per dollar. In November 2016, the rate is 20.6 pesos per…
