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Eat Pray Love 6/10/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
I get it.
No more than ten pages into Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat Pray Love (the title is written interchangeably with commas and without), I understood why the book was a bestseller in 2006, and t...
Voyage au Brésil 5/16/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
This book has it all.
Pirates. Colonialism. Revenge. Religious chauvinism. Naked natives. Slavery. Face-eating lizards. Toe-biting bats. War. Cannibalism. Lawsuits. Starvation and death.
Backgrou...
Postcard: Lake Tahoe 4/30/2021
Reading time: 3 minutes
Gina and I were married in March, 2011.
A few months later, we went to San Francisco, Alameda, Lake Tahoe, San Luis Obispo, Big Sur, and Carmel for our honeymoon.
This is a postcard from South La...
Baedeker's United States 4/5/2021
Reading time: 4 minutes
I didn't know where to start.
The German bookseller Karl Baedeker wrote travel guides in the late 1820s, and started publishing his famous Baedeker Guides in the 1850s. The last was published in...
To Shake the Sleeping Self 3/7/2021
Reading time: 5 minutes
I admit it.
My patience for Christians is short. I therefore harbored misgivings about To Shake the Sleeping Self by Jedidiah Jenkins - a story in which the author rides a bike 14,000 miles from...
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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
