Past Articles

Just finished Mark Blowden’s wonderful account of the manhunt for Pablo Escobar, “Killing Pablo.” The ultimate end came after months and months of searching, and especially, of listening. There was a young commander in the Colombian Search Bloc who got very adept at using a device provided by the CIA, […]

Last night’s television viewing brought forth two pairs…a black man with a white wife and a black woman with a white husband. They were destined to meet on “Wife Swap,” that terribly tacky yet totally fascinating improbable show where wives are traded and experience another’s life. Black wife was lazy…and […]

I was invited to go to Dallas. I checked out the DFW tourism website and found out that one of the attractions in Fort Worth is Billy Bob’s Texas…one of the largest nightclubs in the world. Here are some fun facts about this Texas-sized beer joint: Our rated capacity is […]

A Manhattan couple recently moved to DUMBO, one of Brooklyn’s newest, hippest neighborhoods, reports today’s Times. One night after a snowfall, they ventured out to Brooklyn Bridge Park, to watch the twinkling lights of the city across the East River. They spotted a small animal frolicking in and out of […]

One of my favorite movies of recent months, Sideways, was in today’s New York Times with critics who loved the movie squaring off against those who are afraid of how it glamourizes boozing. How about the message of having a one-week affair just before you get married? Well I loved […]

Met a guy on the phone the other day who runs hotelshark.com. he was wise in an internet way….explaining carefully the science of cost per click and how in a retail store, it is all about cost per foot. “You see on the web, if there are six choices of […]

Found this snippet today on the web Ever since the small Peruvian village of Chucuito discovered ancient Inca ruins nearby, said to be a site where Inca women would go to cure infertility, the village has become a mecca for millions of tourists each year. People from all over the […]

GoNOMAD: Dining with Nomads in Iran This is the kind of story you’ll find on our website. I love publishing stories like this!

This just in from the people who are cracking down on illegal immigrants, from AOL news:“We’re busy all the time,” says Jonathan Rust, chief of the Air Transportation Unit for ICE, which is a division of the Department of Homeland Security. “We have two (Boeing) 737s and two MD-83s, and […]

Picked up a fast-paced read the other day, my Valentine’s day present from Barnes and Noble. It is a book called Killing Pablo, about how the US government helped track down and kill Pablo Escobar, the most notorius Colombian drug cartel leader of all time. The story provides a glimpse […]

The Detroit News had a feature story about GM that illustrates part of why this behemoth company lost more than 2.6 billion since 2000. It has to do with not noticing that in Europe, diesel engines are the way of the future, even though back in 1999, they were just […]

What’s hot in learning travel? The Wall Street Journal wanted to know. We got a call in our South Deerfield offices from Lara Naaman, who writes the Take offs and Landings column for the weekend Journal. We answered her after doing some research. Countries we think are the hottest destinations […]

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Christo is in the news big time right now, after the newly opened installation of his 23-miles of orange gates with flowing orange curtains on top. The thousands of upside down ‘U’s circle New York’s Central Park, and have been on the drawing board since 1979. This new installation cost […]

Pauline from Slowtrav.com chatted with me recently from Hawaii. We shared ideas about how to increase profits in the web business. I gave her a good idea…one that has generated a lot of money for other sites. airport parking. She said that her model was a subscription to membership in […]

COPS battled to stop a RIOT last night at the opening of an IKEA furniture store. Dozens of officers were backed up by fire engines and ambulances as tempers raged in Edmonton, North London. One woman lost consciousness and many more were injured. Thousands turned up to grab special offers, […]

A guy from Connecticut wanted to buy tickets to see the Pats in the superbowl. He goes to eBay for the first time in his life. What luck! Some guy from Georgia was gonna go to the game, but he got transferred to Italy. He has the tickets up on […]

This article shows a fascinating close up photo of the 2003 ring worn by the Patriots after they won their last superbowl….the one before this sunday! Getting prepped to have TV cameras come to our GoNOMAD offices…going to be on TV on Friday, Channel 40 ABC news wants to discuss […]