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Postcard: Los Angeles 11/5/2021
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Los Angeles: the great divider.
Many love America's second-largest city, some hate it—but everyone should visit at least once. And so I took my wife and son in October.
We made one rule: half of...
Postcard: Lake Tahoe 4/30/2021
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Gina & I 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 Lake Tah...
Postcard: Yellowstone 11/17/2020
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In September, 2019, we took a trip out west.
Our vacation consisted of stops in: Salt Lake City, UT, Blackfoot, ID, Yellowstone National Park, Idaho Falls, ID, Arco, ID and Craters-of-the-Moon Na...
Postcard: Rockland, Maine 9/15/2020
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This is a postcard from Rockland, Maine.
The logistics
I bought a car in 2015. One of the purchase incentives was a travel coupon I could redeem for a free hotel in Paris, $50 flights to Hawaii,...
Postcard: Flüeli-Ranft 8/11/2020
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In 2014, I took Gina on a Grand Tour of Europe.
We visited London, Paris, Chartres, Normandy, Reims, Strasbourg, Flüeli-Ranft and Lucerne, Switzerland, Milan, and Rome.
This is a postcard from...
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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
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