Do you know about the milk crisis? Yep. Since the 1970s, consumption of milk in the US has plunged by 30 percent, according to a story in today’s WSJ. That’s a true bummer on top of the lowest prices in decades, which are creating a situation where the end result […]
My daughter Kate is unhappy with how she thinks people are viewing the current nurses strike at Baystate Franklin. Some of the issues are that Baystate does not want to pay overtime to nurses who often work 12 and 15 hours days during their shifts. It’s true that for many […]
It takes skill to win at poker. That’s not a big part of winning in games like roulette and slot machines, since these are pure luck. A federal judge in New York state ruled this week that this key difference may someday make it legal to play poker for money […]
Today we really ran Bend through its paces and boy, did it perform. How about a city where the first thing you do is stop into a restaurant by a cozy fireplace, looking out at their raised salad and herb garden beds and open up a menu full of so […]
I heard a story while we were in the lodge at Powder Mountain about our host who was in a gondola with five young boys. Rich was surprised that all five of them were toting skis, and not snowboards. “Our dads like to snowboard, so that’s why we prefer to […]
If there is one topic that most people are comfortable talking about it’s weather. In fact, it’s a topic that generates more interest than almost anything else. Tonight I got a chance to meet a man who has made weather his occupation. Chuck Prewitt is one of the owners of […]
Queenstown is the big Kahuna when it comes to New Zealand tourism. Nearly everyone who comes to the big wide open South Island spends some time here in this adrenaline filled rockin’ little town. We got a chance to see some of the spectacular scenery here from the water, zipping […]
I have been exercising at a different Y this week, the one in Greenfield is where I ended up a few nights. What a joy to discover that they have a Wi-Fi signal there. So I popped out my itouch and listened to my Pandora program while on the Elyptical. […]
“Have you been to the fish spa?” asked Sara, our guide. “Oh you’ve got to try it, I tell everyone.” she said brightly. “In fact I am going there after I drop you off at the hotel!” The fish spa, we learned, is a place called Kenko, on an upper […]
Here is GoNOMAD’s connoisseur of travel, facing the cold winds atop an outdoor elevator in the city of Stockholm. We’re visiting Malmo this week, and you can read reports about our travels and the people we meet on this blog and on Kent’s Be Our Guest blog.
It’s another sunny hot day in Denmark, and we sailed a Viking boat in Roskilde, just outside of Copenhagen. Our captain spoke in a low voice, telling us to row starboard, or row port, or rest. We made our way out of this harbor. We could see the Viking ship […]
