My daughter, Gina, and I were in Heidelberg, Germany, on April 24, 2011 (Easter Sunday). It was a glorious day and we decided to take a cruise upriver to Neckarsteinach.

From April 16 to Oct. 16, boats of the Weisse Flotte, or White Fleet (Neckarstaden 25, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany; phone 06221 20181, fax 20211), leave every hour, in both directions, from below the Old Bridge. The round-trip fare from Heidelberg to Neckarstaden was €11.50 (near $15.50). We bought our tickets at...

I love to travel, making four or five trips a year. Each year for my Christmas cards, rather than listing the names of places I visited, I create a montage of photographs I took in these places. I then write a personal message on the back and identify the scenes.

How can you explain the beauty of Rio, which I visited seven times? Or the fishermen’s homes in Burano, in the Venetian Lagoon, all painted in different colors? Or a modern building sitting next to a Merlion, the...

My wife and I travel to see interesting places and people and take lots of photos. If you like to do this too, do not go to Morocco! On our 2011 visit, people would run out of restaurants and physically accost us, demanding that we either erase the picture or give them money! 

This happened even at night in the big square filled with thousands of people. One man wouldn’t even let us take a picture of his cat!

Pictures of cute, little 6-year-old girls all dressed up for a...