Saturday, July 5, 2025 – Day One of our cruise on board RCCL’s Adventure of the Seas began with a glimpse of the ship as we approached Terminal 5 at Cape Canaveral. After drop-off, we entered the building where we passed through security and checked in at a designated counter. From there, we climbed up a … Read more
Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there! But a special thanks to my father, Harry I. Heller, for sharing his adventures in his journal titled Thumbs Up. After he died, I edited and published this remarkable account of his 12,000 mile hitchhiking trip across the U.S. in 1929. He didn’t pay a cent … Read more
New Release: Florida Escape In 1935, my father and two fellow adventurers headed to South Florida hoping to discover an idyllic paradise. Instead, they found boggy wastelands, rats and mosquitoes, sticks of dynamite, black panthers, rushing rivers, and skunks. An explorer at heart, Harry I. Heller had already spent one summer hitchhiking 12,000 miles across … Read more