Today feels like a big day for gonomad, we had some amazing contacts come in that made us feel like the pieces of the puzzle are all falling into place. We posted three new stories about such diverse subjects as Finding a Bathroom Overseas, sailing the South Pacific in a […]
Seeing the grand musical 42nd Street on Broadway at the Ford Theater in New York City with my mother Valerie Hartshorne was a great fun event.
From the Boston Herald: Now boarding: Airline starts Ireland trips American Airlines is hoping to cash in on a tourism boom with a nonstop flight to Shannon, Ireland, slated for takeoff in May. More Irish travelers are coming to Boston to take advantage of the cheap dollar while Ireland remains […]
There is no end to the emails that come forth from other website owners asking to link to them. But the game is to know which ones to PAY FOR and which ones to just delete. Recently, the talk on the web was about a scurrilous notion that Google Page […]
Hartford has never been a very impressive place, not really a place you’d think about when naming cool, hip, with-it places you’d want to be. But I had lunch today in the downtown’s swankest and most posh restaurant. Max Downtown. The wine was crisp and the Nantucket scallops were sweet. […]
I’m catching on to the power and incredible wealth of information that pours forth from the blogger’s universe…and also that people are funny about blogs. I hesitate to recommend that people read this blog but put it in my signature and secretly hope like hell someone will leave me a […]
Read a dispatch late last night about exploring. The latest issue of wired is edited by James Cameron, who is more of a scientist than a filmmaker, but he filmed one recently 2700 feet below the ocean. They focused on animals that thrive around vents that spew red hot water […]
Rick Steves is a thoughtful and well respected travel writer. In fact his book Rick Steve’s Italy, is the best selling travel book on the market. Which is funny because more travelers go to England than Italy, but it appears the prefer to read more about Italy. Just before the […]
MSNBC – Supreme Court to hear cable Internet case
Thinking about the lure of lucre vs the clean look of the blog. On our website, gonomad.com, we include many google ads, that match up with the content. this program is what has made Sergie Brin and Larry Page into billionaires, these little green ads that appear on the sides […]
Read a wise article in the most recent Wired about a new trend in traffic management. A 30-year expert in traffic patterns and management, Hans Monderman, from Holland, talks about how they removed the road markings, traffic lights and some pedestrian crossings to a dangerous intersection where four roads converge….and […]
Last night we made a fire. We used kindling we gathered out in the woods. We set a big birch log on the flames and the highly flammable white bark took off and ignited the huge piece; watching the fire made the winter chill just melt away. There is much […]