I was hungry and tired after a long day of boating and hiking in Utah’s Flaming Gorge. It was a great day and I was staying in the heart of it all at the Flaming Gorge Resort, which is located a short drive away from the massive dam that fills up a large part of […]
A Night at the Hotel Maria Prag
When it comes to hotels, I always stress one thing: location. I don’t care how good of a price I get, if I have to blow the savings on transit and precious vacation time to get to what I want to see. It is just never worth it. But the Hotel Maria Prag, which is […]
A Night at the Peery Hotel
My room was small and the bathroom even smaller. It was so small, actually, that the sink and vanity were actually in the bedroom with me at the foot of my bed. But, for as tight as things were in my room at Salt Lake City’s Peery Hotel, it was what was offered which affected […]
The NH Dresden Altmarkt
I never left my hotel room the last time I was in Dresden, Germany. I had come down with a fever after spending my morning at Buchenwald Concentration Camp on my way out of Weimar. It was horrible, since I physically could not leave my room; spaghetti bolognaise was the only thing I understood on […]
A Night at Wendover’s Montego Bay
Wendover and West Wendover – straddling the border of Utah and Nevada, respectively – have never been on my radar as tourism hotspots. I passed through the area earlier in the year, but I just shrugged it off as a trucker stop and weekend getaway spot for Utahans interested in exercising a few of the […]
Berlin’s Relexa Hotel Stuttgarter Hof
When it comes to a hotel, location is what matters most. And the Relexa Hotel Stuttgarter Hof of Berlin unquestionably has that, located right on what I like to call Berlin’s Grand Circle – an easily traversed ring within the central part of the city which includes stops at Checkpoint Charlie, the Brandenburg Gate, Potzdamer […]

