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In the evening light after a very warm day in Long Beach, Naples Island was full of families with kids splashing in Alamitos Bay and others embarking  out in the sunset on paddle boards, one girl chatting on her cell with no fear of the consequences of falling off the wobbly […]

When we set up a trip to Southern California for our February vacation, Long Beach was one of the cities suggested to me by California tourism. I had no idea what I’d see in Long Beach, I only knew that the Queen Mary had been docked here since 1967, and […]

It’s an institution that I’ve never set foot in.  The white restaurant, set back from road, with the big parking lot in Hadley, across from the Mountain Farms Mall.  The crowded lot said a lot. Indeed the place was packed when Ed, John and I showed up for lunch. We […]

I have been trying hard to improve my GoNOMAD newsletter opening rate, realizing that you can’t just assume that people will open every email. You have to put more into it.  I did some reading and was quite inspired by a blog that challenged my thinking.  Though the blog maintains […]

New York City is leaping ahead of the rest of the country with a plan that’s just now starting service to install free Wi-Fi kiosks all over the city that provide the fastest internet, eight times as fast as the average apartment served by Time Warner Cable.   It’s an […]

Today’s a funny kind of day. I woke up feeling terrible and had two new interns coming in to learn the ropes in the office at 9 am.  But I was very prepared–I decided to hire one of my former interns, Danielle Aihini, to teach the two new interns all […]

Here I am in the land of poutine.  Never heard of it?  You are probably in the majority, because the only place I’ve seen poutine regularly appear on menus is up here in Quebec. Some times it will be a novelty item, available far and few between in New England, […]

I’ve spent the day here in Montreal taking in the local sites and enjoying the fresh winter weather outdoors.  No doubt, this is a city and a province that celebrates the winter–embraces it with zeal and encourages its citizens to do the same.  This week, for example, is the city’s […]

It’s time to hit the road again. This time, a long, windy and snowy road that heads up north out of South Deerfield and goes 272 miles to the north and then northwest to the city of Montreal.  I’m heading straight for the Queen Elizabeth hotel, and I’ll trust my […]

This time of year is always exciting…because tomorrow I’ll join Paul Shoul and we’ll spend the next three days at the NY Times Travel Show in the big city! We will be staying at a new place that I’m looking forward to sharing. It’s called Furnished Quarters, and they offer […]

I’ve found that there is power in putting thoughts, ideas and especially, goals down in writing. So every year I try to come up with some goals, obtainable ones I hope, to further my life and my business. So not in order of priority, here is what I hope to […]

When everyone believes something, does it make it true? In the 2012 film “The Hunt,” we watch a schoolteacher’s life become completely unravelled after allegations of child abuse bubble up from a dubious source. And like a slow motion train wreck, what results brings out the worst in nearly all […]

I read a story that was so interesting that I read parts of the story to Mary. And Mary has a short tolerance for things that I find in the paper and begin reading to her. This was a story in today’s WSJ titled, “The Secret to Great Hair, and […]

Rotterdam is a feast for the eyes, if you love interesting buildings and daring architecture.  I took a bike ride making a giant loop around the city yesterday with Narjara Grondman, a trained architect who showed me some of her favorite buildings and gave some background into the history of […]