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Postcard: Lake Tahoe 4/30/2021
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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...
Confronting Insanity 11/30/2020
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My knowledge of North Korea is thin.
Even I know that as insane as the regime can be, no one within its borders will openly criticize it. Unfortunately, the host of Michael Palin in North Korea t...
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...
The Woke and the Bourgeois 10/16/2020
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Postcard: Rockland, Maine 9/15/2020
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This is a postcard from Rockland, Maine, and towns close by.
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...
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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