My great-grandmother told me the story of Disneyland's grand opening in 1955. For months, the family waited with great anticipation, especially my aunt, who was four years old at the time. Her dream was to visit Sleeping Beauty's Castle. For at least a week leading up to the visit, half of my aunt's young vocabulary was the string of words "Sleeping Beauty's Castle" repeated over and over. She said it when she went to sleep, and first thing when she woke up, and when the day finally arrived, she could think of nothing else.

Our latest trip to Orlando drew us out of the city to stay at the fabulous Mission Inn, 40 miles north in the township of Howey-in-the-Hills. In addition to the usual stop at Disney World, this time we...

I think China Town in San Francisco has to be about my favorite place in the whole world, not just because of the delightful shopping and food, but because of the incredible history, the family associations, the...

We landed at the Paris airport, rented our BMW, and drove south to attend a worldwide document management technology conference in Nice, and on the way, we stopped in Cannes. It was the off-season...

While visiting a technology trade show in Taipei, Taiwan, everywhere we went, the sky was dominated by the construction of the world's newest tallest building rising from the middle of the city, right next to the convention center...