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 […]
Richard Gere Speaking for the World
From Little Green Footballs comes this gem. Gere got up with two associates, one a cleric who praises suicide bombers and vows to destroy Israel. Peace activist/actor Richard Gere has appointed himself spokesman for the entire world, and in that capacity he’s urging Palestinians to get out the vote: Actor […]
The Victims of the Victims
NoPajamas.com a bold blog, states something that few have had the nerve to say: You might have noticed coming through the reports that there have been a LARGE number of dead tourists from Germany, Scandinavia and other Western European countries among the victims of this disaster, especially in Thailand and […]
Fareed’s Point
Fareed Zakaria writes in Newsweek this week about finding hope in the sorrows of Tsunami land. The scale of this calamity has shocked even those who are hard to shock. People in this region, he said, are used to tragedy. But this time they are getting help and this is […]
Phuket is still Open for Tourists
Despite what most people think, only a fraction of Phuket Thailand is destroyed. With the coverage of this, I feared the whole place was wiped out. This is what happened to Phi Phi. Read this more positive spin on AOL News: Although much of Phuket escaped the waves’ wrath with […]
Tsunami Blogs–You Are There!
My Trip Journal provides blogs for travelers, and sent out a release offering blogs to relief workers. We caught this account of a traveler caught on the beach in Thailand on the morning of the Big Wave..This is written by a blogger named Chan from the UK Dec 26th … […]
CNN Live with Betty and Miles
On Monday as we were driving home in the snow from Northern VT, we got a call from a producer at CNN. He wanted us for a live shot to comment on airline passenger’s rights. Though we were more than two hours away, we jumped at the chance, and at […]
Priority Shuffle
Thomas Friedman writes in the NY Times: We face two gigantic national challenges today: One is the challenge to protect America in the wake of the new terrorist threats, which has involved us in three huge military commitments – Afghanistan, Iraq and missile defense. And the other is the challenge […]