Year: 2010

Hello Everyone, We have headed further south to Antalya. We started at 7:00 this morning for a full day road trip through the mountains. The scenary was beautiful driving along the mountain side and ovelooking the see. By the way we are overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. We stopped at ruins in Santos, where Helen of...

Hello Everyone, Today is Sunday, October 3, 2010. What a wonderful day I had. We started in the morning on a wooden schooner, which is a lot like a yacht to me. We sailed for a few hours stopping for swimming and lunch. The weather was perfect. Sunny, in the low 80’s. I did not...

Hello Everyone, It is Saturday, October 2nd. We left Istanbul very early this morning for Izrim airport. we then drove about 1 hour to the town of Selcuk where the ancient City of Ephesus is located. There is still a lot of excavation to be done but this city is fabulous. The city was also...

Hello everyone, It is day 3 for me in Turkey. Each I’m loving the destination more. I am in Istanbul staying at the Marmara Taksim Hotel. Marmara Hotels are Turkish owned hotels with 5 locations in Turkey and one in Manhattan, NYC. While the hotels cater to executives, it is very comfortable for the leisure...

I left Tuesday, September 28th from O’Hare @ 9:20am. The plan was to go to JFK via Pittsburgh arriving JFK @ 1:50pm. I also had a flight from JFK to Istanbul that was departing @ 4:45pm. My flight from O’Hare left on time and without a hitch. I landed in Pittsburgh on time and discovered...

Hello Travelers, The Traveling Eye has partnered with The Illinois Bureau of Tourism. From January – June 2010 The Traveling Eye will be enjoying Illinois. We will take our listeners on a tour of Illinois featuring weekend getaways each week, doing a complete show on an Illinois region each month and hosting two come along...

Hi Everyone! Recently I was at a friends home, playing Bid Whist and the topic of “Cougars” came up. Not the furry, four – legged kind, the human, female, walk on two legs kind. For those of you who are not aware, a “Cougar” is an older woman who dates much younger men. Sitting in...

Hi Everyone! As I was reading through some crazy travel stories I came across one that sounded odd at first but I must say it could have been written about any one of us who fly on a regular basis. The story was about the overhead compartment on a plane How many times have you...

Hi Everyone! How many of you enjoy going on cruises? During the cold winter months here in Chicago, people book cruises to get away from the ice, cold and snow. It is great to leave Chicago in December, head to a cruise Port of Call and after a few days or a week lying on...