Double Take Fringe Festival Roars Back October 17-18!
Double Take Fringe Festival in Greenfield This is something I really REALLY wish I was going to. I have a good excuse but nonetheless, were I you, I’d check out this great festival of short plays that will be held Friday and Saturday, October 17-18th in Greenfield. The venues are […]
Mridula Gets Her Own Domain, a Top Indian Travel Blogger
Long ago, a young Indian professor named Mridula Dwivedi started sending her stories into GoNOMAD. We were in our little red office, this was back in 2005, and Steve kept publishing more and more of her stories. She traveled only in India and all of the stories had the travel […]
Singing to the Belugas in Manitoba
Every day I go down to my office I open up a the equivalent of a chocolate box–a new story to publish on GoNOMAD. It’s so varied, there are so many different stories, I never know what I’m going to get. That’s what makes being an editor such fun. Did […]
Tony’s Kindness Brought Out a New Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett have 60 years separating them, but they’ve become fast friends and have gone on several successful tours together and just released a new album. In a touching interview in Friday’s WSJ, Marc Myers interviewed Lady about how Tony Bennett has affected her life, her attitude […]
China’s Dirtiest City’s Biggest Polluter
In China, there’s a revolution brewing, and it has nothing to do with the Communist party. It’s about the foul air that more and more is causing the Chinese to wheeze and causing Western executives to either turn down assignments to work in Beijing or demand huge amounts of hazard […]
Isla Holbox, the Lovely Opposite of Cancun
We spent a few days mostly inside the Moon Palace convention center just below the Hotel Zone in Cancun, and after all of the work of our TBEX meeting, it was time for a change of pace. So we packed in to a van and drove two hours to the […]
TBEX Excitement Is Contagious Here in Cancun
I’m with my peeps, my tribe, my travel buddies from all over the world, who are assembled here in Cancun to share their success, their tribulations, their glamorous stories of exotic travel and their frustrations as they navigate new channels. It’s always an exciting time and I am always glad […]
Getting Help: Using Interns, Salespeople and Virtual Assistants to Grow Your Business
I flew to Cancun this morning, and when I arrived I was in the thick of TBEX, the Travel Bloggers Exchange that brings more than 1000 travel writers and bloggers under one giant roof. I was glad to feel my knee pretty much return to normal after my fall the […]
The Knee Goes Out and a Man is Down
Man down! That’s what I thought last night as I approached my friend Joe’s deck, carrying a bag with my little drum and some beers inside. It was an awkward step up, too high, and just before I made it up I felt my knee buckle. Joe was walking over […]
Twelve Years Publishing a Website Has Brought Lessons
I have been publishing GoNOMAD since 2002, twelve years, and I continue to find new intriguing programs and new media to explore and to use to disseminate our travel stories around the web. The articles that are submitted have never been better, the quality of the writers who send in […]
Automatic Keeps Track of Everything Your Car Does
I’m testing a gadget that’s right in line with all of the talk about using the big stream of data that is generated during our lives to give us valuable information. This little white plastic gizmo, about 2 1/2″ long, plugs into your car’s computer slot, down below your left […]
A Great Day for a Flight Over the Valley
My friend Bruce, who I play music with, promised to take me up for a spin in his plane, so today, with perfect blue skies and light winds, we made it happen. I met him at his hangar where he keeps his 300 horsepower experimental two-seater sport plane at Northampton […]
Dr Gale Potee, A Rich and Full Life, Well-Lived
Obituaries hold a special interest to me. I read them every day in the Recorder, and I’m always fascinated by how people are remembered and what gets included. These days, any long obituary that’s not written about a famous person or someone in public life is paid for. So then […]
The Summer’s Best Trip
It’s the wind down season and every year I think about how fleeting the summer has been. I was with my granddaughter Sofie last week, enjoying dinner on their deck, and I asked her what her favorite part of the summer was. Was it the visit to the Maine beach? […]
Building the New Railroad Crossing on Elm Street
I was told that instead of laying down a bed of gravel when they’re building railroad tracks, they put the track down first. Then they dump this load of stones over top and lift up the track, so the gravel settles where it’s needed in a uniform grade.
Caro Heller Was a Caring, Loving and Beloved Mother Who Will Be Missed
Caro Watkins Heller passed away last night. She was my god mother and she was a big part of my childhood growing up in Blawenburg, New Jersey. Caro and then-husband John Heller used to come down and visit us in the New Jersey countryside, and we would go and visit […]
The Big Wedding Weekend of 2014
Today I had to put down the duties of publishing for far more important work, with a much stricter task master. We are getting ready for a wedding. A big one. The daughter! And thus was there a list created and on that list were many things that would not […]
Bill Bernhardt Never Reveals He’s a Guide When He Hires One
Our tour of New England’s tippy top continued as we said goodbye to Pittsburg and made our way down blue highways out of the Granite state and up into Vermont’s lakeside town, Newport, on Mephremagog. Before we left we Bill Bernhardt, a fishing guide with Lopstick Outfitters, who makes his […]