The Wandering Soldier

Travel Thoughts for the Outrageously Adventurous. It is always recommended to Travel Fearlessly.

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Friday, July 4, 2025

The Great Basin National Park's Lost Winchester 1873

One of the coolest things we saw on our 80-day trip to California and back. On this trip, we visited 32 National Parks and Monuments. The ...

Sunday, May 11, 2025

Fort Sill and Geronimo's Grave

Today, we did the Fort Sill historical walk, which took us around the old Fort Sill. The commanding general still lives in the same house t...

Thursday, January 30, 2025

Perth: Australia's Gold Coast City

Australia, I can't believe it! We finally made it to the country of our many dreams. We left New York on 3 January on the Queen Mary 2...

Florance: David and the Ponte Vecchio

Watching CBS Sunday Morning and their story about the Ponte Vecchio got me thinking of our family trip to Florence, Italy. We live in German...

Monday, December 30, 2024

Reunion and Mauritius: A Contrast of Cultures in the Indian Ocean

Hello, La Reunion Island. It is a French Island in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Madagascar. Terri felt under the weather, so I left t...

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An Old Soldier

The Wandering Soldier: I'm a retired Army Soldier that has a motorcycle addiction, who loves to Travel. It is a good combination. For me travelling is life . Traveling in general, is all about the experience; which I have learned to collect. I collect them like some people collect things, the more that you can collect that are good or even bad unintentionally have the potential to make you a better person. Real travel educates; What I'm talking about is staying in real neighborhoods and eating at local restaurants that haven't been corrupted by chasing the tourist dollar. My greatest travel experiences have been meeting people who did not think of me as a tourist as if I was there to view them like they were in a zoo. On a recent business trip to Kuwait, I had a discussion with a Bangladeshi Taxi driver that not only gave me insight into his life in Kuwait, but also his life and family in Bangladesh where he had started a rice export business. To me, this is what travel is all about. It is about life and the different places that those lives are lived.

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