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There are few ways to better get to know a small city than to visit a local barber shop, and then spend a while in a nearby tavern drinking a local beer. In Bend tonight, I got to do both. First I visited Debbie Brooks at L&K Barber Shop on […]

We arrived in the high desert, windy open country of central Oregon and reached Bend, our home for the next four days. My traveling companion is a fellow web publisher and self-admitted geek who hacked his own Android phone and has been publishing First Tracks Online since the ancient internet […]

Keith Ferrazzi got us all energized this morning with a lesson that focused on one thing–human relationships. We were gathered for the Travora Publisher’s conference, about 100 members of the sales and tech force, the new CEO Nan Forte, and many travel publishers and mobile platform specialists. Ferrazzi works with […]

The travel publishing community is like a family. I always enjoy the time I get to spend with the familiar faces who grace the stage at the NY Times Travel show and who are fixtures at the after parties that are such an important part of the networking of the […]

I drove a snowy road down from Wendell following a snowplow at 20 mph today at 6:20 am, en route to Amtrak, headed for NYC. On the way I got a chance to listen to Monte Bellemonte on WRSI interviewing two UMass students who have created a food garden just […]

The other day I got a call from Woman’s Day magazine, they were looking for budget travel ideas and so I spent a little bit of time thinking of what’s new that I could share with them. “We are looking for ideas for women who might be interested in a […]

Someday you will be able to get Wi-Fi without any log in or passwords. You might have heard about why AT&T was trying to buy the third largest wireless carrier, T-Mobile, and was turned down by regulators. They ended up paying $4 billion to the owner, German Telephone, for backing […]

Yesterday we indulged in a Northampton tradition that stretches back 19 years. On the final Sunday of every February, the Really Big Show channels the ghost of Ed Sullivan and brings jugglers, singers, comedy troupe actors and musicians together for an entertaining afternoon of fun. For the second time in […]

A few years ago I first heard about and attended Podcamp Western Mass. It’s a truly creative day where people who love geeky things get together and share with each other. It’s that chance to finally figure out how to post videos on a blog, or how to sync your […]

We took a different route this week for our accommodations in Pittsburgh to visit Mary’s family. Instead of the Holiday Inn, where room prices were about $189 a night, we choose to rent an apartment for far less. The service is called Airbnb.com, and it matches up people with spare […]

We spent the day in this city of three rivers, in the Shadyside neighborhood where Mary spent her childhood. In our rented one-bedroom apartment, it was nice to decamp and be able to visit Mary’s family and have a place to come home to afterward. Shadyside’s Walnut Street is one […]