By Bill Pfeffer As the aluminum cable cars hummed into the platform, swiveled around and stopped, I held up two fingers, and pointed to my wife. We hustled to the rocky car, as the young man smiled, nodded, and held open the door. I distributed my weight, while my wife…
By Bill Pfeffer With a Tony Soprano meets Boris Yeltsin reputation, we were not sure what to expect after arriving in this legendary capital. With six-dollar Big Macs, midnight sunsets, a hundred brands of vodka in your local convenience store, muscled pistol-packing bodyguards, pin striped businessmen, all night dance clubs,…
Casting for Walleye in the Lake of the Woods, Canada By Bill Pfeffer ‘How’d ya do?’ begins every conversation in this neck of the woods – as in, how many fish did you catch? When the guest with the hi-tech boat, announced, matter-of-factly, ‘forty walleye,’ I stared at my shoes,…
Malindi, Kenya: Bill Pfeffer and his wife visit Malindi, Kenya, the little Italy of Africa, where they lounge on the beaches and enjoy a gelato.
China: The Splendor of Anhui Province By Bill Pfeffer “Watch out for the water buffalo around the corner,” cautioned my wife, as I backtracked through the dampened alleyways in the rural village of Tangmo. Rounding the corner, I pulled up short, the passage blocked by a beast of burden. With…
Angkor Wat Cambodia: Bill Pfeffer visits the Angkor Archaeological Park in Siem Reap, Cambodia, which includes the temples at Angkor Wat, Angkor Thom, Ta Prohm, Bayon, Baphuon and Banteay Srei.
Bill Pfeffer and his family visit the anonymous town of Znojmo in the Czech Republic, a perfect place to get away from tourists and emerge in local flavor.
