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NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICTour of the Snake and Columbia RiversVaughn Gordy and Patricia Mulcahy October 2019 We had heard good things about touring with National Geographic and we weren’t [...]

St. Patrick’s Day in Santa Fe March 15, 2019 It has become something of a tradition for my wife and me to join our friends, Jerry and Rosie Johnson for a long St. Patrick’s Day weekend travel [...]

This blog is where I write about my trips. Enjoy!

We were very excited in anticipation of our trip to South America to see the Nazca Lines, Machu Picchu, and the Galapagos Islands. Unfortunately, two weeks before our departure, Pat fell and [...]

In this interview, Vaughn talks about his World War II experience, specifically his 45th mission when his plane was shot down by enemy fire. You can listen to the interview on StoryCorps.me or [...]

It had been five years since our last visit to California wine country.  Once again, we chose the week of St. Patrick’s Day for our visit. Pat and I first flew to San Francisco to meet [...]

Wednesday, January 28, 2015: This was basically a travel day. From Ha Long Bay to Hanoi Airport to Siem Reap, Cambodia. We landed at about 8:00 pm in Siem Reap. Several of us had to obtain [...]

Visions of Vietnam Sunday, January 25, 2015 8:00 am and back on the bus to the Phu Bai Airport which has serviced the City of Hue for at least 45 years. This morning we were flying to Hanoi. The [...]

Thursday, January 22, 2015 On Thursday we boarded our bus for the Tan Son Nhut Airport to fly to Danang Airport. The flight was on time and uneventful. In Danang we boarded a bus for the short [...]

Tuesday, January 20, 2015 At 8:30 in the morning we went to the hotel lobby to meet our tour guide and our 13 traveling companions. All were from the United States so there were no language [...]

There is an old saying that the victors get to write the history. This could not be more true than with respect to Vietnam. This was my first time visiting Vietnam since the war. From November [...]

We had a great time and will go back, but Huatulco, Mexico was not our first choice. For about 5 of the last 7 Thanksgivings, we have chosen to get out of the country and our frequent destination [...]

The occasion was a retreat to Lake Charles, Louisiana at the Hackberry Rod and Gun Club. I flew in on Thursday afternoon and we went night fishing on the “Night Stalker”. Six of us [...]

In Memory of Thomas Fischer (1944 – 2011) May 19 – June 2, 2012 Turkey is a country that has, so far, managed to maintain relative neutrality in a region that is fraught with religious acrimony. [...]

Our flight departed Chicago at 7:30 am on November 19, 2011. Somehow that didn’t seem like an unreasonable time when we booked it, but that meant getting up at 5:00 to be met by a taxi at [...]

December, 2010 On December 2, 2010 I flew to Minneapolis and was met by Ned who had agreed to not only drive me to Zell, SD but also to bring an extra shotgun since I was flying commercial. We [...]

This trip had been planned for many months. Both Pat and I had been to France several times before, but never to Normandy to see the sites of the D-Day invasion. What we hadn’t planned on [...]

The occasion was my father’s 90th birthday. His actual birthday was on May 31st, but the celebration was June 5th. Not many people get to mark this milestone but in my father’s [...]

This was just a great (but short) 5 day vacation to Sonoma and the California wine country. On March 17 we left Chicago for San Francisco. We stayed in Healdsburg for 3 of the four nights and [...]

Neither of us had been to Belize before and it had been a long, challenging year since our last vacation. It was time. And from what we had heard from others, this was the place. Belize is on the [...]

April 6, 2008     This was an opportunity to mix business with pleasure. A necessary trip to Eugene, Oregon to visit a client was mixed with a weekend visit to Pat’s [...]

Chapter One – San Jose Patricia planned the whole trip and it was not easy. Nine days in a country that neither of us had ever before visited. It took a lot of time on the internet and several [...]

March 2, 2006 This trip to Greystone Castle in Mingus, Texas was to be a day of hunting for a variety of birds as well as a chance to do some joint marketing and male bonding. It was setup and [...]

February 21, 2005 The Gates by Christo and Jean-Claude were on display in New York City’s Central Park starting February 12, 2005 for only 16 days. The middle weekend of the brief display [...]

For the third weekend in November, a group of us were invited by Blake Kuhlman to a quail hunt in Nueva Cuidad Guerrero, Mexico. On Thursday November 18, 2004, I flew my Cessna from Chicago to [...]

This trip started for me with a flight from Chicago to Portland Oregon to begin a weeklong road trip with senior officers from Forest City Trading, an attorney from Morgan Lewis & Bockius, a [...]

The Greatest Generation. That is what Tom Brokaw labeled the generation including World War II veterans. By and large, these veterans have been reticent to talk about their experiences and my [...]

Noun 1. duck – small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs The Duck Hunters were Dr. Paul R. Meyer Jr. and the author. [...]

October 4, 2003     Doctor Paul R. Meyer Jr. is a noted surgeon and professor of spinal cord surgery at Northwestern University Memorial Hospital in Chicago. The author is the [...]

Jeff’s move to Miami had been planned for about six months. He decided that he had had enough of winters in Chicago; his brother was moving out on him, he was without a job or a girlfriend. [...]