First Week as Veep
This week I started a new position as Vice President/Business Development for Airportparkingreservations.com. My business cards came and so it is official. It is all a part of my plan to stop driving two hours every day and to focus my attention fully on website work, which I love. I […]
Van Horn Ain’t Seen Nothin Like This
Jeff Bezos, Amazon ‘multibillionaire’ has big plans for Van Horn Texas. This tiny burg of 3000, smack dab on Interstate 20 in West Texas, is where he’s purchased 165,000 acres for his ranch. Seems Jeff grew up on his grandaddy’s ranch in South Texas, so he wants to show his […]
Which Balls Are Worthy?
from The Note, on ABCnews.com, a super insider political place to find good stuff… On Thursday: 7:45 pm ET: The President and First Lady attend the Constitution Ball 8:30 pm ET: The President and First Lady attend the Freedom Ball 8:45 pm ET: The President and First Lady attend the […]
Big Plane Will Rule the Skies Over Boeing
Airbus Passes Boeing Thirty-five years ago, when Boeing introduced the 747 in Seattle, the 350-passenger plane that was the first jumbo jet redefined air travel. It gave Boeing a competitive edge no one successfully challenged, until now. But now comes the 555 seat JumboLiner. “The A-380 really has no competition […]
Real Friends
You find out who your real friends are when you put out a call for a weekend’s worth of help….and they all come through with smiling faces. Lisa, Kent and Cindy joined us for the weekend of schmoozing and chatting up the website at the booth in NYC. They once […]
What One Man’s Enthusiasm Can Bring
The Adventure Expo travel show was a spectacular success where we were able to show thousands of travelers what GoNOMAD has to offer them. It was, again, so great to be in the Biggest City in the World, and to have new faces like Joe O join the GoNOMAD girls […]
Dinner with the Competition
We met up with two accomplished webheads at our Times Square hotel tonight. We are here in the Big Apple through Sunday for the Adventure Expo, and we thought it would make sense to get together with the owners of Bootsnall.com, one of the most successful alternative travel websites. We […]
Musical Name Grooves
Music that I often like to listen to comes from the computer, actually the garage of this great guy named Rusty out in California. He runs soma.fm, and streams forth the ‘groove salad’ and ‘detective and spy’ music channels, among others. The names of the songs are amusing and sound […]
Travelin’ with Kal
On Wednesday morning we’ll be traveling with Kal, on the Kal London travel show broadcast on a Connecticut radio station. We were glad when the host, an old travel pro, decided to give us the whole 6-8 minutes to talk about GoNOMAD, the upcoming Adventure Expo show in NYC, and […]
Looking for the Perfect TV Host
Note: This is still in the idea stages 10/07 and we are not actively seeking a tv host at this time. We broke in the new GoNOMAD office last night with a terrific 3-hour meeting to discuss the new TV show. Sony Stark and Kent St. John drove down from […]
Not Painting Your Girlfriend Naked
Back reading the NY Times Sunday again….snowstorms, that always seem to blow in on Fridays, continue to make cozyin’ up next to a fire a required part of each day. Sunday’s Styles had a piece about a woman whose partner was painter. He met beautiful girls in his studio and […]
Montana Tales from Last Winter
Western Lore and Cowboy Songs One evening we returned to Big Mountain for a special Western treat. Two teams of Clydesdales were hitched up to big sleighs and we took a short ride through the starry darkness to the cowboy hut. There a chuck wagon was doling out hot cider, […]
Copyrights….Forever?
Lawrence Lessig writes in the recent issue of Wired about the silliness of continuing to extend copyright protection to every word published or note of music…and how in the EU, on New Year’s Day, copyrights on music and tv recordings will expire. “Now the public will get its justly earned […]
GoNOMAD Featured on CNN
This is just one of the stories that people will enjoy reading on GoNOMAD.com. CNN’s Kyra Phillips interviewed us in a segment about Delta’s new less restricted fares, and we pointed them to the story by Kent St. John on the subject. The people at CNN are very cool, very […]
Tina Brown’s Icy Words
Few writers can turn a phrase like Ms. Tina Brown does every few weeks in the Washington Post. Here is some of a recent column on Bernard Kerik’s flameout from his hoped for post heading Homeland Security. That’s why the real satisfaction of the flameout lies not in Kerik’s fall […]