We’re Not Worthy….Ok, I Guess We Are
When I stepped into our two-connected-rooms-with-a-living-room-in-between here at the Kimberly Hotel, I thought, why, we’re mere travel editors…are we worthy of these luxe New York City digs? Of course we are, I said again, quickly coming to my senses. It’s tough being a travel writer, especially having to spend the […]
Random Thoughts on a Soggy Saturday
A soggy day; a day that I wished I didn’t have to deal with all of my wet leaves. Then I go out and put together my cleverly designed, yet maddeningly frail outdoor tent. It had flown over in a fierce September gust of wind, now the thing is broken […]
Mama Cat Appreciation Day
I read a book about hobos that said they liked to keep puppies because they warm up their sleeping bags so well. Though my cat doesn’t warm up the bottom of my bed, she does provide a valuable snuggle. Having her soft fur at hand level is a treat. Having […]
Strange Maps: A Free-form Cartographic Journey
I love maps. I spend a lot of time looking at them, and always enjoy taking a spin around the globe we keep at the cafe, seeing where places are and checking out their relative size. I was sent a book the other day that is a map-lover’s fantasy. Frank […]
The Waitress Stiffened When the Tourist Spat Out the Meat
Sarah Wang recently spent four days in North Korea. Her account, published on Slate, is depressing, thinking that people have to live with little food, no internet, no cellphones, and a government that spends millions on propaganda and enforcing the cult of personality. “While the guards ate their meals or […]
Yahoo to GeoCities: Drop Dead!
The web continues to mystify and amaze me. Just today I read that Yahoo is shutting down Geocities, even though the network of websites attracts more than ten million visitors a month. And the company paid billions in stock to buy the site in early 1999. On today’s WebProNews, the […]
Venice Adventures Are Fine Without Me
As I often do, last night in the dark I reached for my iPhone and flicked the screen to bring up my Facebook newsfeed. With friends in all time zones, I always find some news popping up and as I lay in bed I read Richard Frisbie’s reports from Venice. […]
When Yóu’re a Web Publisher, You’ve Gotta Bonk
In our business, we call it bonking. We repetitively copy and paste pieces of text, photos and links from one page to template pages to fix our code and update the GoNOMAD website. Cultivating this vast field of travel articles takes a lot of work, a lot of bonking, over […]