The Great Minnesota iPhone Get-Together
Here are some of the sights and sounds I captured with my iPhone at the Minnesota State Fair. Listen!
California Road Trip
Over 7,000 miles later I am now on the California leg of my road trip. The last week has been extremely busy. My days have consisted of long distance driving, meeting people and seeing things. I’ve enjoyed every minute of it, but I haven’t left a lot of time for writing blog posts. I have …
Traveling to Dangerous Places
This Saturday I’m flying to Acapulco, Mexico. I’ll be there a few days before sailing on the Queen Elizabeth up to Los Angeles as a guest of Cunard Cruise Lines. Not surprisingly, almost everyone I’ve told mentioned something about crime, murders, drug gangs, or beheadings. Almost all the news coming from Mexico lately has been …
Question and Answers: January Edition
Melanie Bishop Fine asks: How do you decide which place to visit next? Do you prefer to visit new destinations or return to ones you have visited before? There are a small number of places in the world that I really want to visit. I’d could probably count them on my hands. These are high …
Historic District of Old Quebec
From the World Heritage inscription for the Historic District of Old Quebec: Québec was founded by the French explorer Champlain in the early 17th century. It is the only North American city to have preserved its ramparts, together with the numerous bastions, gates and defensive works which still surround Old Québec. The Upper Town, built …
My multilingual summer in Barcelona
This guest post is written by Benny Lewis who blogs at FluentInThreeMonths.com where he encourages and helps people learn to speak foreign languages. I met Benny earlier this year in Bangkok and again in Las Vegas for BlogWorld Expo, where we took a side trip to visit the Hoover Dam. Benny currently speaks English, Esperanto, …
Sobrino de Botín: The World’s Oldest Restaurant
Last month, 47 year old pitcher Jamie Moyer set a record by giving up his 506th home run. For those of you who live outside of baseball playing countries, giving up a home run in a bad thing. You’d think that by setting the all time record for giving up home runs would make Jamie …
Surviving The Tsunami That Wasn’t
As all of you are probably aware, there was a tsunami warning across the Pacific last night from the 8.9 earthquake which struck off the coast of Japan. You are also probably aware that in the end (thankfully) not much happened outside of Japan. Nonetheless, it was an extremely hectic night and I learned several …
Thailand Redshirt Protests – Day 1
This is just a quick update, because I don’t have time to do a full write up. Yesterday I attended the political protests in Bangkok. I spent several hours walking around the protesters with my camera. Everything was peaceful. Not only was it not an angry mob, it had the atmosphere of a festival more …