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Pour yourself a hot drink and get comfortable.

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Then came the bullshit part.

"Tell me the most interesting thing that's ever happened to you."

I needed the job, so I didn't roll my eyes—but I'm pretty sure the recruiter did. He had informed us...

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Still wrong about dodging.

Multiple sorties of F-bombs were launched and replenished.

This is Part 2. Part 1 is here.

Outside, a dozen kids between the ages of fifteen and eighteen returned ev...

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Not one shoulder bump.

We formed a loose circle in the middle of the bar. No one jostled us as they laughed with their friends or called out to the waitress. We drank in silence, unmolested.

This...

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God yes, we plan.

My wife and I plan our trips as a couple—but the key here is: we plan them. We don't wing it.

Seasoned pros can skip this page.

We don't have absurdly detailed itineraries....

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Want to score points?

In the fall of 2018, we took our son to France. It was shortly after My Stan Lee Story.

We began in Strasbourg, a magnificent city in Alsace. I decided it was a good time...

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About

A smiling Francis and me, sitting outside in front of some shrubs

Some basics

A brief biographical sketch

Me on top of a sunny Mt Pilatus in Switzerland, with mountains in the background

Travel

Pardon the saccharine and the obvious, but travel is everything

A couple standing in front of a large Gothic church, on a bridge over the Seine

France

France deserves its own section

Francis, as a two year-old in a car seat, in sunglasses reading a French picture book

Reading

The bullshit of daily life? I'd rather read.

Stage with musicians going at it—they're Gogol Bordello, and they're crazy

Music

Let me take you back

Little boy sitting on a big white bed, looking at a tablet

Television

I watch a lot more television than movies

Live action from a soccer game at Crew Stadium—yellow versus blue

Soccer

The only sport that matters

Ugly photo of a pig knuckle after it's been eaten—really, it looks horrible

Food

As a travel writer, I have to talk about food

Me in an outdoor restaurant drinking from a green coconut with a long straw

Dumb stuff

You will not feel smarter after reading this

Dumpster full of garbage

Minimalism

Trying to live simply

Me getting out of a red Ferrari F430 with a guy clapping for me

Other Interests

I've only driven a Ferrari once

Dude wearing orange pants and orange and green shoes walking on wet grass

Get off my lawn

A few brief rants

Recent Tweets

If you toggle the switch above the words "Recent Tweets" and it still says, "Nothing to see here - yet," it means the idiot who broke Twitter either hasn't gotten around to fixing this feature, or intentionally broke it to get us to pay for it (which is moronic, I can easily live without it and it generated traffic to his site).