Drowning Woman, Depressed Man
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 […]
Picking the Winner
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 […]
Your Husband is Dead–Now Let’s Have Sex
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 […]
Spoofed…The Intern Didn’t Send The Diss
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 […]
Relaxing in the California Desert–For Research!
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 […]
Get Him Out of Here…Then We’ll Talk
Newsweek in the May 2 issue had this exclusive on the embattled nominee for the UN. Since Northwest Airlines doesn’t include any meals or movies, there was plenty of time to peruse the magazines. Here is the gist of their report. In early 2003, the British were negotiating with Mohammar […]
Driving the Dakar: Muddy and Deadly
Jonathan Miles writes beautifully in the new issue of Men’s Journal about the Dakar Rally, a brutal, deadly, overland race from Barcelona to Dakar Senegal. The punishing terrain, over 3′ tall camel grass, or sand dunes, or through raging rivers grinds down both car and driver. Their modified Kia Sportage […]