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I was pleasantly surprised yesterday evening when a traditionally goofy penny-ante poker game staged each year at Thanksgiving became a full-on, challenging, normal-stakes poker game.  What a treat! It’s hard, for some reason, to get people to play poker. There is only a certain type of man or woman who […]

Why do I travel?  Tonight, the answer couldn’t be clearer. Tonight, I am so aware of exactly why, and it’s given me an exhilaration and excitement about my upcoming trip. I’ve been sick and in bed way more than I ever have in the past two weeks, but now I’m […]

I can’t remember a time when I felt more energized and happy to be back in my office working.  I think it has to do with the contrast from the previous few weeks when I was laid up with that leg infection. Everything I tried to do was awful, so […]

I had lunch with Martin Booth, the editor of the Bristol news, arts and lifestyle magazine B/247 today at a fish and chips joint called Salt and Malt.  Nice simple food, well done and gluten-free batter. I asked him what a few of the topics were that people are talking […]

I spent today wandering around two seaside towns on the southern coast of England.  I took my time, absorbed the local history, and met local shop keeps and others who shared a bit about Seaton and Sidmouth. My original plan to walk ten miles on the Southwest Coast Path was […]

I arrived jet-lagged but ready to face the 9000 travel professionals who descend upon London’s Excel Center yesterday, the opening day of World Travel Market.  This event is unlike any other in that there are no consumers—it’s only travel people, and boy there are a lot of booths to visit […]

No matter what you do in life, your blog lives on. I realized that today, as I have many times, when I got a comment from the wife of a classmate from NMH, Tim Carroll, who passed away in July 2011.  It was nice to read comments that my words […]