Tips for Spain
If you are ever in Spain, find a town with a festival - especially in the Andalucia region of south Spain. There is nothing like it -- the beautiful flamenco dresses, conquistadors, bullfights, music, festooned cantinas that [...]
Ode to a traveling friend
Las Vegas, Portland, Cannon Beach, Cozumel, Tulum, Isla Mujeres, Havana, and Pinar del Rio ~ dance floors, dysentery, beaches, sad parrots and lawyers, hysterical laughs, happy coincidences, shiny convertibles, cockroaches, doctors, henchmen, handsome men, con-men, crying babies, [...]
German Airports
Germany is a beautiful fly-over - it looks a lot like the Winona area from the air, except there are a zillion small towns separated by sometimes just a couple of miles of farm fields. I'm not [...]
Take Probiotics
I did not take my own advice and start probiotics two weeks before I came to Havana, and from midnight yesterday to this moment I've felt like I was going to die because I've been so sick [...]
American Overheads
I am 10 hours into a trip to Rome and I haven’t even gotten out of Philadelphia yet. So far, I’ve been day drunk in La Crosse because of a long flight delay and a bartender with [...]