Confronting Insanity 11/30/2020
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Backseat Cities
Announcing Backseat Cities: Travels Through Places People Only Live In
Backseat Cities are places which, fairly or not, "take a backseat" to destinations like New York or Los Angeles, and small towns such as Charleston or Carmel.
Backseat Cities is the story of my travels to fun and exciting mid-sized cities, overlooked by travelers and the travel industry:
- Lafayette, LA: The Heart of Cajun Country
- Cleveland, OH: Columbus's Hot Sister
- Rochester, NY: The Jewel in Western New York's I-90 Crown
- Boise, ID: The Land of Lincoln and Happy People
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Postcard: Rockland, Maine 9/15/2020
"Hidden Gems": It's Mortifying 9/1/2020
Being Corporal Upham 8/25/2020
Postcard: Flüeli-Ranft 8/11/2020
In (Semi-)Praise of Iceberg Slim 8/4/2020
The Piraget novels
The first of the Piraget novels is The Sacred Lily, set in Paris, 1814, where we meet Lucien de Piraget, Frédéric Lafargue de Rochefort, and Olivier Bertrand as they try to restore Louis XVIII to the French throne.
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Most blog posts will be about travel, writing, or travel writing.
I will stray, though - and it could go anywhere. Classic rock, a spy novel, an old episode of Six Feet Under, or the latest summer blockbuster. I might review a Crew game or tell a story.
About
Some basics
A brief biographical sketch
Travel
Pardon the saccharine and the obvious, but travel is everything
France
France deserves its own section
Reading
The bullshit of daily life? I'd rather read.
Music
Let me take you back
Television
I watch a lot more television than movies
Soccer
The only sport that matters
Food
As a travel writer, I have to talk about food
Dumb stuff
You will not feel smarter after reading this
Minimalism
Trying to live simply
Other Interests
I've only driven a Ferrari once
Get off my lawn
A few brief rants
