Why didn’t they think of this 200 million junked chargers ago? At a meeting of the mobile phone industry, a sudden agreement was reached to one of the most vexing and frustrating aspects of owning a cellphone. How do you charge it and how come the chargers are all #$*! […]
Greenfield MA gets a pretty bad rap for its schools. I remember well a friend who worked in the high school and was so miserable he almost gave up teaching. Then he found himself a job at Frontier and has been happier ever since. The school committee makes the news […]
I’m still thinking about our Travel writing seminar at the Javits Center on Saturday. It was exciting to have an audience of 180 listening to every idea we had about how to break into the travel writing business. I was impressed because many of the people in the audience were […]
I bought a used ipod Touch the other day, and it came on a messy looking taped up box. It has an engraving, that says ‘Verlyne megan miller’and ‘be humble’ beneath. After I charged it up, I opened some of the icons on the touchscreen and was given a window […]
A most excellent article just came out about my favorite little towne. I had a fun time with the writer from BusinessWest, Joe Bednar, with whom I spent part of an afternoon with a few weeks ago trumpeting how great Deerfield is. At one point I took him outside of […]
Because of the nature of our business, using Wi-Fi and being connected is very important when we’re traveling. With the ‘Net in the room, I feel up to date, and in touch with back home. One of the nice things about the two places we stayed in Mexico is that […]
Just 6,000 people live here in Puerto Morelos, and though there are plenty of American and Canadian tourists, it is full of Mexicans going to school, going out fishing and running bustling restaurants and cafes. We visited a bookstore with lots of used books in English, and met a woman […]
What comes out of your feet if you soak them in a bath with negative and positive ions? I am still not sure what it was, but tonight, under the instruction of Gloria Guerrero, I placed my feet in a bath and watched as it filled up ten minutes later […]
About two years ago, an amazing network of watery underground chambers were discovered beneath the vast Yucatan jungle. They were just a few of the thousands of cenotes, sinkholes formed over millions of years partly as a result of the catastrophic meteor hit that took place in the sea just […]
Sustainable tourism is a robust business and employs many people in places like the Yucatan. This afternoon I learned how one company has brought jobs and a lot of revenue by a simple formula. Selvatica offers American and Canadian tourists some adrenaline, a plunge in a natural pool, a simple […]
One of the hallmarks of my press trips is meeting ‘interesting locals’ wherever I am. To do this I ask my hosts to find people I can interview and get a feel for the local zietgeist. It never fails to produce quote-worthy people who offer us unvarnished views of politics, […]
Governments can do some good things, but the real heavy lifting is often done by NGOs, or non-governmental organizations. We rode out to Nuevo Durango this afternoon, with Jesus Mesa del Castillo Bermejo who does good work for Kanche helping develop tourism and other endeavors among the Mayan people of […]