Going Mobile

No matter where you go in the world, you're apt to find a beautiful sunset. In the Northwest, though, weather sometimes gets in the way.

John was in an epic bad mood.

Driving Iceland's Ring Road is a challenge, but it's full of starkly gorgeous scenery, the occasional rainbow and some pesky high winds.

No trip to Australia would be complete without a stop in Sydney to tour one of the world's great architectural wonders: the city's famous Opera House.

As we entered Oregon’s Crater Lake National Park in late September, it felt like we had skipped fall and gone immediately to winter.

Andrea Camilleri set his "Detective Montalbano" novels on the island he loved. And one 10-day road trip more than two decades ago told us why.

One of the daily pleasures of life on the road is sitting down to dinner in an ever-changing landscape.

Little did I suspect that nearly two decades after seeing Roland Joffe's 1986 movie "The Mission" that I would one day visit the magnificent spot where it was filmed.

We’re now both part of the whole Medicare cohort and pretty darned happy about it!

Venice is the site of Kenneth Branagh's mystery movie "A Haunting in Venice." But the atmospheric Italian city is threatened by the very water that makes it special.

The Inland Northwest boasts a number of fine golf courses. Their beauty, and the companionship of good playing partners, can make you forget just how hard the sport is to master.

Ready for an epic journey through history?

It’s no secret that the mindset here at Going Mobile central involves travel. However it’s accomplished, though, the travel we all do is fueled by an abiding interest in new places and the people who inhabit them.

You can see a lot of Spain and Portugal in 18 days. Traveling by train, by bus and by car, my wife and I managed to squeeze as much as we could. Here are the highlights.

As longtime fans of the Seattle Mariners, we’ve been on a giddy ride as they surged to the top of the standings this summer.

Though several million Antarctic penguins would argue, Portugal's Algarve was once thought to be the "end of the world." Yet this much is true: The view from the Cabo de Sao Vicente (Cape of St. Vincent) is both "immense and dramatic."

Who’s ready for a map session?

The Mediterranean has a number of fine beaches, as the residents of Italy's Cinque Terre know well. But to Rick Steves, Portugal's Salema Beach "may be the most purely enjoyable beach in all of Europe.”

Gee, it’s good to be back home again.