“God tests how much you love him by sending you guests,” said John H. Wurdeman V. We were seated at a long table, shoe-horned into a narrow establishment in downtown Tbilisi called Azarphesha Restaurant, and before us was the first course of a long, long dinner of mezze plates. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]