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Life as a cafe and website owner is exciting. You never know who’s gonna call or who is going to pop into the cafe. We have been sweating it out with our transition to a new improved web hosting service that has caused us some downtime and hairpulling, but we […]

Darren Garnick writes in today’s Boston Herald about how slackers can look like big shots…at least from the waist up….if they need to sit in front of a videocamera at a teleconference. Enter the Businessbib. “Think paper dolls without the pants. The “Bib” is a Velcro-enclosed half-suit meant to be […]

It only gets worse for travelers, according to today’s NY Times. Luggage is being lost and it is hard for the airlines to catch up. “Since Aug. 10, when a ban on most carry-on liquids sent the amount of checked luggage soaring, airlines have been misplacing many more bags, and […]

“I’m Ed Bradley.  I’m Morley Safer.  I’m Lesley Stahl with another edition of Sixty Minutes. ” If anything in my life symbolizes Sunday nights, those words surely do.  We heard this week about the passing of Ed Bradley, the lone black man among the legendary 60 Minutes crew, the guy […]

People in Greenland don’t let the cold stop them from living their active, busy lives. Children in daycare trundle out of the classroom into the playground, sliding down hills and enjoying time in the snow. Men ride by on bicycles, and most of the people walk rather than drive. Since […]

It feels great to be back home in my own office at the gonomad cafe. With my luxuriously large double monitors, my reliable fastinternet connection, and the fast paced energy of the cafe out front. Kent is off on another voyage, this time to Sydney and Tahiti, soon the old […]

We are comfy in an internet cafe called Barista in downtown Nuuk. This little cafe with 36 computers has excellent lattes and upstairs the computers are all arranged four to a table with the flat screens facing out on all four sides. I am more than a bit flumuxed over […]

We have reached the capital of Greenland, Nuuk, population 15,000. Wohoo! We were impressed with all of the large buildings as we drove from the airport to the city center. Then upon arrival we were wisked off to a reception where the featured entertainment was one of Greenland’s top pop […]

Outside the window of the Somandshjemmet, or seaman’s home, horses are standing in the snow. They don’t move much, unlike the dogs who yap and tug at their chains. These three brown horses with their thick fur coats stand motionless. It makes me think of what the temperature must be–about […]

What a day we had in Glorious Greenland! I am very excited about the nascent tourist business that will soon turn into something very significant when Air Greenland begins its twice-weekly flight from Baltimore to Greenland in late May ’07. You can feel that the country is ready to welcome […]

In Greenland everyone hangs out their laundry, even during snowstorms…we are in Sisimiut, on the coast and here there is a year round harbor. The big employer is Royal Greenland they process shrimp and halibut but the cod is scarce. Today we heard about a trade school where people can […]

We took a short crash course tonight in Greenlandic: in this language there are only 20 letters and three vowels…and a sound that is common for two L’s is sort of like the sound someone with a lisp makes. Greenland is fantastic: The food has been first rate, fresh fish, […]