Travel

What’s a Muffy?  You can find out at Fertitta’s Deli in Shreveport, Louisiana. It’s the only building left standing for blocks around.  Once there were 31 other small simple houses, but they’re all gone. Inside this wood-framed building is a local institution, so beloved that a street was named after […]

We started the day in a swamp, and moved on to view a museum of rural life, the biggest Antebellum plantation, and the Lousiana state museum in and around Baton Rouge today. A group of 27 writers, we enjoyed getting to know each-other with little time to dawdle.

I’m packing for a trip that starts tomorrow with a flight to New Orleans. I’m joining a group of journalists on a road trip through the great state of Louisiana, and on Saturday morning I’ll take a swamp tour in New Orleans Plantation country.  Then we’ll visit the city of […]

We’re all just so sick and tired of winter here in New England that we can’t even joke about it any more.  On Thursday I drove to Boston with Paul Shoul for a lunch with some Atlantic Canada tourism people. We parked on a street where every car was perched […]

Fort Hill Brewery’s big grain silos loom before you out of farm fields driving up Fort Hill Road, off Ferry Street in Easthampton. The footprint is huge, with the towers and a new steel building that looks like a medium sized factory. This new Easthampton brewery is by far the […]

In our little country neighborhood, we enjoy watching the parade of people walk by, and the pulse of the neighborhood during different times of the year.  We watch our neighbor’s kids on their playset, the single men next door clearing their driveway of snow, and the passing parade of walkers […]

I joined a group of foodies on Saturday morning for a tour of some of the culinary highlights of New York’s Greenwich Village.  We set out on a cold blustery morning with one of Walks of New York’s founders, Jason Spiehler, who set a brisk pace ahead of us as […]

Preview for a trip to Republic of Georgia in 2015.

Every day I go down to my office I open up a the equivalent of a chocolate box–a new story to publish on GoNOMAD. It’s so varied, there are so many different stories, I never know what I’m going to get. That’s what makes being an editor such fun. Did […]

On a trip a last week to Belize, we sat with a group of journalists from Mexico City. “You should come to our Valley,” said Paul Shoul, my photographer travel buddy.  The sophisticated Chilangoes were interested…because Paul is right.  For anyone who loves great music, great food, smart locals and […]