Travel Writing 201, Tips from Three Pros
I’m still thinking about our Travel writing seminar at the Javits Center on Saturday. It was exciting to have an audience of 180 listening to every idea we had about how to break into the travel writing business. I was impressed because many of the people in the audience were […]
A Morning with Sofie, Six Weeks
Valerie Sophie is just six weeks old. New and barely unwrapped. I used my cute little videocamera called a Vado HD by Creative that’s about the size of a cellphone to shoot her in high definition, and of course, put her on YouTube. Who can resist those tiny little hands? […]
Energy Consumption at Home and Around the World
I’ve been getting pats on the back for not sipping anything alcoholic since Dec 29. The best part was last night when after being away four days, my daughter and son-in-law remarked that I looked ‘way less puffy, smaller, like someone took a pin and deflated you.” I never knew […]
Dreamers Still Dream About Trips Faraway
Driving home last night on the packed FDR drive in the truck, I tuned into 770 am and heard some startling words from host John Bachelor. He had two experts on from Dow Jones, and they rattled off scary facts that made me shudder. For example, the total dollars held […]
Some of the People Behind GoNOMAD
Here’s the gang at the show ready to talk about the website to the crowd. From left, Joe O’Rourke, our seasonal tradeshow vet, Cindy Bigras, Travel Writer, Editor and Paul Shoul, Staff Photographer.
The Tent Where All the Action is at the Javits
We dutifully forked over another thirty bucks to get the Wi-Fi at the booth, so now I can show you all the tent that we’re using here at the show. Our staff artist Dave Chouinard created some excellent signage, as he does for the cafe and the website, and his […]
A Party Full of Youngsters, A Tent That Stands Out
We’re in the big Apple for the next three days, meeting friends, reader and advertisers who all know us through GoNOMAD. Last night Kent and I took a long, circituitous taxi ride down to the lower East Side to a bar called Lolita. Packed in like sardines, 20-somethings guzzled drinks, […]
Another Man’s Music, Another Man’s Porn
I bought a used ipod Touch the other day, and it came on a messy looking taped up box. It has an engraving, that says ‘Verlyne megan miller’and ‘be humble’ beneath. After I charged it up, I opened some of the icons on the touchscreen and was given a window […]