Which tire do you think will get better traction? I saw these dirt bikes going up I-91 yesterday. 

Wouldn’t you love a boat like this? 

Today’s Sunday NY Times included a story about a rich man who has become Chile’s largest landowner. Douglas Tompkins, founder of the North Face and Esprit clothing companies, first fell in love with Chile as a backpacking teenager. Now he has turned his land, about the size of Rhode Island, […]

Cindy woke me up early today, at 7 am on a Sunday, asking “hey come on, it’s time to check to Google alerts!” We have been waiting anxiously for today, since a few weeks ago when we corresponded with Beth Harpaz, Travel Editor for the Associated Press. She wrote a […]

Sam Hartshorne, 20, has joined the roster of writers who contribute stories to GoNOMAD. Sam went out to San Francisco and joined the Green Tortoise bus for a 28-day trip up to Alaska. The trip took a long time, spending it all together on a converted bus. His story is […]

Hugh Hefner has a new reality show on E!. Comcast had this to say…”More than anything, the program is a bittersweet take on how one man’s dream might be an imperfect fantasy for his women. “I think there’s two main adjectives people think when they see us: bimbo and slut,” […]

Thomas Friedman‘s column is so logical and simple, it is almost hard to bear. Why can’t some of these ideas make it on the political agenda? “During the 1973 Arab oil embargo Brazil was importing almost 80 percent of its fuel supply,” notes Mr. Luft, director of the Institute for […]

During vacation, I still gravitate to my old habit of thinking about work. So I came back to the cool circular newspaper reading room of the Edgartown Public Library to indulge. Here they had the WIFI connection, the electric plug and even a comfy place for a mouse and pad, […]

Lifeboats, coastguards and police turned out off of Hollicombe beach, near Devon, England, when screams were heard from a rubber dinghy – only to find a naked couple making love. A walker on nearby cliffs thought their shreaks of delight at 8 a.m. were calls for help and dialled 999 […]

On the ferry over to Martha’s Vineyard, I got a chance to read a long NY Times story about King Fahd, the just deceased leader of Saudi Arabia. The story included a glimpse into his younger, wilder days, when he was just a prince waiting for his chance. Fahd got […]

Today we went to a funeral in New Jersey for my Uncle Kim. As we all age, and time marches on we notice that we go to more and more of these. Seeing family meet their ends brings me to think about Nathan and Greta and the other babies who […]

Sarah Boxer writes in today’s NY Times Sunday Arts section about dogs, cats and blogs. “This is her story. Last month a woman let her dog relieve itself on the subway in Seoul. She was caught, by a cellphone camera, doing nothing about it. Within days, her picture, her identity, […]