I made my way over to the towering Omni Hotel at Champion’s Gate, on the flat plain that is Orlando FL. Unbeknownst to me I was not staying in this palace, but at the nearby Radisson. I met up with Jim Zhu who I’ve known for some time, as he […]
It’s still exciting, every time I am about to fly. It’s below forty degrees here at Cindy’s but when I deplane in Orlando this afternoon, temps should be much warmer. I am not sure what to expect for the next few days, but my eternal optimism tells me that it […]
It’s been a whirlwind of a few days, it’s nice to be back for just a brief spell at home base. Manhattan was the usual mix of exciting nightlife, people from the past, and potential trips that we’ll be writing about all next year. We were taken to a wonderful […]
Kent and I are ensconced at the Holiday Inn in Manhattan, just about to go meet some fellow travel writers and sample Hungarian wines. Tim Leffel, the owner of Perceptive Travel, extended this invite, and put it succinctly–“Kent, why don’t you join us and sip free wine instead of having […]
We all passed the test. It was an important one, required by state law, and after studying all about food borne illnesses, temperatures for cooking chicken, and the different droppings that pests leave around the kitchen, my staff and I took and passed the Serv-Safe test last night. We celebrated […]
I read with interest on the BBC News a sentence at the very end of an article about Zimbabwe, which was in the news today because they printed $200,000 bills, that buy, well, a sack of sugar. The intriguing part was a note about Grand Inga, where the world’s longest […]
A grey, windy day—a good day to sit in the window of the GoNOMAD Cafe and read the WSJ. Here I found a piece by Roya Hakakian about Iran and the Holocaust. The author has a visit from two young female medical students, and at dinner they tell her that […]
The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.You feel stuck with your debt if you can’t budge it.Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.He often broke into song because he couldn’t find the key.Every calendar’s days are numbered.A lot of money is tainted – It […]
I love following traditions that are always the same, year after year. Last night we joined our neighbors in a Deerfield Halloween tradition that’s always fun–a hayride around the town in the back of farm wagons with kids in costume. Nathan was reluctantly dressed as an elephant. But he didn’t […]
Today was a day for public service. So I drove 48 minutes to ‘nearby Orange’ to appear on a district court jury. The day began after assembling in a room where a television played ‘Ellen’, and then a documentary about a visit to Egypt. And Luxor. Some of us brought […]
Watch Out! Now even telcos have to fear Google. They’re getting into the phone business. A Google phone may just not cost anything–since the company’s method involves monetizing the screen on the handset with advertising, just like they do with search results. Free phones! They’ve been talking to LG and […]
China has recently astonished me with the levels of pollution found in the air, water and earth. As a regular international traveler, I haven’t ever tried that hard to go to China, because of the bad air and other hazards. Of course, I am sure there are places of great […]