So many fascinating books are sent to GoNOMAD for review. We don’t review, but we do publish excerpts, to give our readers a taste of what’s inside. Glenn Alan Cheney is an American, an apiarist (bee keeper) who walked a famous road through the heartland of Brazil. He comes across […]

From a new article published on GoNOMAD.com, about logging in the Congo, by Will Sparks. “The 40-ton machine drove straight through anything less than about 10cm in diameter, and maneuvered around larger trees to reach the target log. Workers attached a steel winch cable to the log and the operator […]

Gerry McGovern is a wise web guy who provided good ideas for getting people to come to your website. Here is part of today’s column, he explains that people’s reaction to what they see is as important as how quickly they can find you: I was recently thinking of renting […]

This is my daughter Kate who is expecting a boy in May with fiance Francisco, in Miami. 

Vanity Fair consistently wins the award for ‘magazine that is actually worth paying $4.50 at the supermarket’ for. April’s issue included a profile of uber-connected Washington columnist and TV host Robert Novak, by David Margolick. Below he recounts an encounter with an man who was outraged that Novak outed CIA […]

this is the pathetic google translation of an email from italy. why putting a computer translator on your website is lame: Good day beloved editor, not there are problems, she will be the welcome. We are still in phase of completion we let us work of restructure (we will realize […]

Found this item on travelmole, a cool site that provides travel tidbits. The many dangers facing visitors to Australia have been well documented, but tourists would normally feel safe in one of the country’s many swimming pools. At least, they should until now, after a saltwater crocodile was found in […]

I heard about this new movie from a column by Frank Rich in today’s New York Times. Here is what they wrote about this film, directed by Penn Gillette, in the Sundance Film Blog. “When the Aristocrats platform moves from obscene to racist the audience is challenged for the second […]