About Jeff
Member of The Chicago Writers Association
Member of the South Florida Writers Association
Member of International Screenwriters’ Association
Member Charlotte Writers Club
Jeff Lyon is the son of a truck driver and preacher’s daughter. He grew up in Irving, Texas, earned a Communications BA from the University of North Texas and then went ski bumming in Colorado. Jeff returned to Texas to work for the City of Lewisville before heading to Florida to become a licensed yacht captain. Jeff spent twelve years teaching sailing and captaining charters on Lake Michigan. During Chicago’s harsh winters he wrote travelogues, books, short stories and screenplays. Jeff returned to Florida to write and captain boats for five years, then moved to Charlotte, NC where Karen finished her career in HR. The author is currently living in Chattanooga, TN blogging and publishing the Digital Divining, Demus Divining, and Ocracoke Divining Trilogy. His adventurous tales are based on personal escapades and filled with extraordinary characters.
RONDA
We bid despedida, or farewell, to Granada and boarded the bus for a 110-mile drive to Ronda in the Sierra de las Nieves National Park. The city of 35,000 is split on one corner by a spectacular gorge separating the old-town quarter from modernization. Near Antequera...
GRANADA
Granada's 235,000 residents live in tightly packed houses strewn across the Alhambra, Albayzín, and Sacromonte hillsides. The Darro, Genil, Monachil, and Beiro Rivers converge in these foothills at the base of the Sierra Nevada mountains, explaining why this area has...
LA MANCHA TO GRANADA
Our Rick Steve's group travels by bus from Toledo across Spain's largest plain. La Mancha is Arabic for "land without water." This vast dry farming region produces cereal crops, sheep, goats, and saffron. European bus drivers are supposed to take a break every two...
TOLEDO, “City of Three Cultures”
Starting in 542, Toledo was the Capital of the Visigoth Kingdom, then Spain, until Philip II moved Spain's capital to Madrid in 1560. Toledo is known as the "City of Three Cultures" because Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived there in harmony. The Targus River is...
SEGOVIA
After a fifty-mile day trip by bus from our current home base in Madrid, Segovia greets us with its 2,000-year-old Roman aqueduct. Vehicle traffic was allowed to pass through the 100-foot high arches until it was discovered that the rumble was disturbing its 24,000...
MADRID
The Spanish high-speed AVE trains zips across the 386 miles of arid plains and hillsides from Barcelona's perch between the Mediterranean Sea and the Pyrenees to Madrid on a plateau in the heart of Spain. A monitor showing our progress clocked speeds up to 193 mph...
SAGRADA FAMILIA
When Antoni Gaudí graduated from the Barcelona School of Architecture, the director proclaimed, "I do not know if we have awarded this degree to a madman or to a genius; only time will tell." Gaudí's nature-based designs were void of straight lines. He neglected his...
America’s Cup 2024 Barcelona
Chris and Sid, our dear friends from Heath, Texas, just happened to end their cruise in Barcelona, Spain, while we were there. We got together Saturday, September 14th, to check out the beginning of America's Cup elimination racing at Port Vell. Port Vell was home to...
Barcelona City Bus Tour
For days two and three of our Spain adventure in Barcelona, we opted for the City Tour by Hop-on, Hop-off Bus. The double-decker buses deliver a running commentary via earbuds as they whisk around the City, providing splendid views from the upper seats. 44€ buys...
THE BEST OF SPAIN-Day One
Karen and I explored Spain from September 10 through October 2. Like the savory dishes Spaniards serve with drinks in bars and restaurants, I'll be dishing out small portions of the treats we discovered in a series of posts to avoid overindulgence. We left Chattanooga...
