The size of the cruise ship business was pointed out to us tonight as we spoke with Mark Akst, the GM of Cambria Suites Fort Lauderdale in Dania Beach. He told us about ships now cruising out of this port with 2500, 3500, and even 6500 passengers. And a good […]
Just as I take the stuff out of my suitcase, it’s time to pack again for a little vacation. Well, sort of. We are heading to a suite in Fort Lauderdale, where we promise to do a white-glove inspection and share it with our readers. We are fitting in a […]
I’m blogging up here at our cruising altitude and thinking about what I enjoyed the most during our trip to Alabama. Besides the comraderie and fun of traveling with a good friend, I’d have to say that quail hunting tops my list. The trip was full of excellent most manly […]
Ray Scott is a marvelous host. He greeted us warmly when we met him in his office in Pintlala, Alabama where the walls are decorated with photos of the businessman entrepreneur with his close friend, President George HW Bush, and he told us one of his favorite stories. He said […]
I woke up at 4:15 am and was in a Jeep bumping over a dirt road by 5:30 am. I was joined by our guide Josh, Joe Estenes, a former police officer and hunter from Sarasota Florida, and riding shotgun, our favorite Shooter, Paul Shoul. We were headed to a […]
Last night we sampled the handiwork of a local legend in Birmingham. Chris Hastings spent years under the tutelage of Frank Stitt, one of the city’s top chefs and in 1995, he and his wife Idie opened the Hot Hot Fish Club, in a round building downtown. The elegant mood […]
I love unsung cities that cry out for attention and deserve it. That’s been a favorite theme on GoNOMAD and again and again, we find stories that demonstrate examples of places that, once you scratch the surface, are full of interesting foods, people, and sites. We’ve spent a few days […]
Rolll Tide! Watching Alabama play Auburn in the 2011 Iron Bowl game in Tuscaloosa Alabama. What a thrill!
It’s a sleepless night in Birmingham for many football fans…because tomorrow is the 75th Iron Bowl, as the National Champions Alabama meet their most hated rivals the Auburn Tigers in Tuscaloosa. Shoul and I will be there–but first we meet a family of Roll Tide tailgators to take in the […]
Tomorrow, instead of joining my family in ceremonial eating, I shall be airborne, heading to Birmingham Alabama. I am going to spend the next five days in a dizzying display of manly arts—hunting f0r quail, hunting for whitetail deer, and taking in a museum full of thousands of motorcycles and […]
It’s a tough time for believers, say believers. A story in Christianity Today described the problem of young people leaving the church. ” Other survey results have been grimmer. At the May 2009 Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, top political scientists Robert Putnam and David Campbell presented research […]
A story in today’s Gazette shows the terrible power of celebrity, and that like most of us, we believe it when somebody ‘famous’ wants something big. Matt Pilon wrote about a late night visit to Antonio’s Pizza in Amherst by a man wearing backstage credentials for the Bob Dylan show […]