Morning bread and wine are the preferred refreshment on this Italian Riviera excursion. It's the breakfast of champions on the Italian Riviera. A chunk of focaccia bread washed down with a glass of white wine launches the day with flair for dock workers and tradesmen as well as slightly hungover tourists. In the case of the tour group my wife and I...

The Speakeasy: Age of Scofflaws in San Francisco is an interactive party featuring cocktails, comedy and cabaret show. Excuse me, do you know where I can get my pants tailored? With that simple, yet completely off-topic question, the woman in the blue hat and blue scarf allows us to pass through the door of Joe's Clock Shop after handing us a Treas...

Bathing naked, sip sparkling wine and eat schnitzel in the historic German city of Wiesbaden. Certainly, you can make eye contact and even nod in greeting. But, for heaven's sake, don't stare, in neither admiration nor aversion, at anyone's privates or bare backside. Those are my do-and-don't tips for taking the waters naked at Kaiser Friedrich The...

An e-bike is the perfect way to get around Rheingau wine country in Germany. Half-way up the impossibly steep hill to Schloss Johannisberg, I'm suddently grateful I opted for an e-bike. Originally, the plan was for a leisurely peddle on a commuter bike through vineyards in Germany's Rheingau wine region. But when I meet my guide, Claudia Lewerenz, ...

Cycling over the Golden Gate Bridge was the highlight of a long weekend in San Francisco. Of course we're amped. We're cycling over one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World, according to the American Society of Civil Engineers. The wind howls, our grip tightens on the handlebars and we peddle harder. My wife, Kerry, and I and our 16-year-old da...

Vacationing where the Wright Brothers invented motorized flight means taking to the air ourselves, fishing, horseback riding and eating barbecue. Just like Orville Wright, I'm flying over the sand dunes of North Carolina's Outer Banks. Orville, the first man to fly a motorized airplane in 1903, accomplished the world-changing feat at nearby Kitty H...