Today my friend Jack exclaimed to me that ‘some days you don’t remember, but today, I’ll remember this for the rest of my life.” It was only about 12 noon when he made this declaration, and we had a lot more activities to finish out our second day in Vermont’s […]
It’s all about the flow, we were told, the flow and those narrow tracks that wind down a slope and let you go really fast. That’s what mountain bikers want, said Lilias Ide, our guide at Kingdom Trails in East Burke Vermont. We saddled up fast, heck, it was 4:30 […]
Another Green River Festival is in the history books. Today once again I had to admire Jim Olsen for the acts he finds and brings together year after year. It’s his reach of bands I’ve never heard of who so often are unique and different, and just plain amazing. Some […]
I am writing this blog at Google’s NY city advertising offices above Chelsea Market in lower Manhattan. There is no sign showing they are here but the security guys nodded when we inquired. We saw where they get their free coffee and pastry and lunches and now are seated waiting […]
I am so happy to be back in my regular routine, today I awoke with vigor and met my friend Jeff at a wonderful cafe in Greenfield called the Brass Buckle. We discussed our ebook business and later a woman who used to come into the GoNOMAD Cafe stopped by […]
There are things that people do on vacation, things they never do any other time of the year. Last week I joined my large extended family of about 14 other people ranging from age three to 85 on a lake in Pennsylvania’s Endless mountains. Maybe we never do these things […]
This is the holiday week. I could sense this on Friday when my email dropped to trickle, and phone calls reached no one. Few Americans will be working next week, including your blog writer. It’s good to be going somewhere that doesn’t allow me to plug in. Where we are […]
I was wondering what the traffic jam was when I got off Interstate 91 north at exit 24 in Deerfield. Lots of drilling and earthmoving. Then yesterday I approached two men in yellow Mass DOT vests and they told me what they were building there at the corner of Rte […]
In Portland, Oregon, the trash trucks no longer rumble through the neighborhoods every week. That’s because the city has embarked on a new way of dealing with trash, instead they pick up composted food waste mixed with yard trimmings weekly and now do half as many regular trash pick ups […]
Last Friday I joined a group of travel writers on a sort of scavenger hunt, photography/video contest, we made our way from Denver to Keystone Colorado and created a trail of evidence to show what we did. It was a fun day–a tour of the zoo, of Red Rocks concert […]
Five men with the same five instruments can produce diametrically opposite music. I thought about this last night when we listened to Sierra Leone’s All Star Refugee Band at the Iron Horse and contrasted the effect of their music to other groups playing the same instruments. Take the guy with […]
What a treat! Today I go up to my daughter and son-in-law’s house and pick up two delightful companions for the day. Sofie, age 3, and Nathan who is 7. These guys are coming with me while we hit the farmer’s market, then I have a lot of fun things […]