No matter what you do in life, your blog lives on. I realized that today, as I have many times, when I got a comment from the wife of a classmate from NMH, Tim Carroll, who passed away in July 2011. It was nice to read comments that my words […]
For the past eight days, I’ve been living in what feels like a twilight zone. I got an infection in my upper leg, which caused swelling and discomfort and had to have it attacked by strong antibiotics. If you take these powerful pills for a week, you begin to feel […]
Another birthday has come and gone. I think all in all, it was pretty darn good. I don’t know about you, but I am always a bit uncomfortable with a lot of hoopla over birthdays. I know that people really do enjoy knowing that day has come, and I was […]
Today is one of those days when I feel a bit overwhelmed. I am still feeling the effects of a flu shot that I got on Saturday after I stopped by a free flu shot clinic at my local elementary school. I didn’t know that the next day I’d be […]
Travel Writing is an art, and despite having a large number of social media followers, many of the bloggers in the travel space today could write better and more clearly. In this presentation, Max Hartshorne, who has been the editor of GoNOMAD Travel since 2002, provides many examples and ideas […]
Traveling along Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way, we’ve been treated to ocean vistas, towering reddish cliffs, and wide open stretches of land bordered by crude stone fences places there hundreds of years ago. We piled aboard a charter fishing boat for a visit to an island that up until 1927, had […]
I don’t remember ever seeing such a dramatic place as this island off the coast of Ireland in County Mayo. Achill is a place that people are passionate about, it is the home of about 2700 souls and in the summer up to 6000 come out. Some of the highest […]
Today we got a good look at the Irish coast and did all kinds of different things. We left Killarney at 10 for a long drive over many highways and winding roads bordered by hedges up the Wild Atlantic Way, stopping at Ennis and then to the waterside town of […]
It’s Thursday morning and I’ve been here enjoying the fine company of hundreds of travel bloggers at TBEX in Killarney, Ireland. There is no place I’d rather be than here with so many people who live much the same life as I do–writing, traveling, photographing, and sharing their travels with […]
I worked in the t-shirt and embroidery business for a decade. But all of the shirts we sold were printed on old-fashioned presses using different colored inks with large numbers required for each run. A new store opened up in Easthampton by Christopher Harman and Andrew Kuppermann takes a different, simpler […]
Our trip last week to the Azores didn’t really include Ponta Delgada, but we did have time to hang out and wait for our flight to the island of Pico. We explored the local market, and enjoyed some sidewalk snacks, walking along the seaside and enjoying the sea breeze. This […]
After a week in Portugal, we’re happy to see that Portugal continues its proud legacy of being one of the most affordable countries in Western Europe. How much do things cost in Portugal? This well-deserved reputation is not without a cost. Things are that cheap here because the people make […]