This morning dawned sunny despite the weatherman’s warnings. Last night we had a wonderful time reading and judging the 50 entries for the GoNOMAD travel awards. Having Lisa here, who grades papers and AP exams for a living, helped a great deal. We read through each one and gave each […]

While at lunch at the BBA Polish Deli in South Deerfield, I picked up a copy of the Recorder. Front page news told of a brave or foolish 61-year old gas station attendent, who thwarted a would be robbery with his bare hands yesterday. “Fazal Elahi was working alone at […]

May’s issue of Men’s Journal had quite a few beauts…including this one by Paul Theroux, famously grumpy travel writer. He describes an incident while he was in Equador looking for a drug to help jump start his book. “Sitting on the riverbank, I saw three gringo women from our group […]

Friday is going to be a fun evening. That is the night that Kent and Lisa St. John and Cindy Bigras and I will be judging the first winner in the GoNOMAD.com travel awards.We came up with this idea back in January, that we would award four winners a $500 […]

Today’s NY Times front page includes a frustrating story that helps explain why one out of every five people in Malawi have the AIDS virus. It is a tradition of male relatives and others having “cleansing sex” with widows after their husbands die. Just as the wife is recovering from […]

We were had. It started on Wednesday, as any of you regular readers would know, when I posted here about being rudely told off by the intern who didn’t want to come work with us after getting a better offer from National Geographic. After a more careful look at the […]

The hot tub, where everybody hangs out, at the nude resort.  This is one of the windiest places I’ve ever been, I was there in 2005, and I wouldn’t be surprised if they’ve already installed a wind turbine and solar panels. I often think back and wonder what has changed […]

Sign as you enter De Anza Springs resort in Jacumba, California, about three miles from Mexico.