travelogue and personal reflections from a world adventurer

Parker Emerson soaks up everything important and interesting about the sights and sounds of a trip and squeezes them out for the reader.

Travels with Spot: Paris to Zürich doesn’t just tell you where to be, it tells you how it feels to be there.

Parker G. Emerson has traveled throughout Europe, the United States, and parts of Africa, Mexico, and South Korea, beginning with an unguided trip to Europe in 1973.

He acquired the nickname “Spot” as the navigation center supervisor on the nuclear missile submarine USS Simon Bolivar (SSBN641) for eight years and 15 deployments deterring global thermonuclear war. He completed his B.S. in business administration at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA, while still on active duty. After leaving the US Navy, he moved to California where he worked in the aerospace industry and earned his MBA from the University of Southern California. Emerson has held senior management positions and has started and sold several companies. He is a co-author of The Public Administrator’s Companion: A Practical Guide 2nd edition. Now retired, he and his wife, Sandra, enjoy traveling and writing about their adventures.