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ADAM AND EVE ON A RAFT

Friday, June 25th, 2010

Eating on the road is an opportunity to search for, seek out and to try different foods – meals you might not find at home. Local specialties, for instance, like Rava Dosa at the Tekka Wet Market in Singapore. Or a breakfast of Huevos Motuleños at Cafe Pasqual’s in Santa Fe…
…sorry: drifted off [...]


GEEK STREETS

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

Doug and I are always on the lookout for the unusual, the off-beat, even the strange when it comes to travel.
Seattle, for instance, has the Space Needle, the rockin’ EMP (Experience Music Project), Pike Place Market and enough quirky neighborhoods to keep even the most jaded traveler entertained for weeks. But what about Underground [...]


TAKE A RADIO FLYER

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

When most people think of heading out of Vancouver and down I-5 to Bellingham, they’re either focused on Seattle or have designs on cheap socks at the Bellis Fair Mall.
But there is a not-so-hidden gem of a destination, just off the interstate in Bellingham.
The American Museum of Radio and Electricity is located in the centre [...]


HAWAIIAN MUSEUM OF KINGS (AND BISHOPS)

Tuesday, June 8th, 2010

The new book I’m writing has been a source of continuous excitement to me. This has been due in no small part to the global travel involved during the long research phase. Luckily, Hawai’i has been a part of that phase. Specifically, the research has taken me to the Bishop Museum in [...]


LAST GAS(P)

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

Location: Lake Valley, New Mexico
Lake Valley is a ghost town, one of many I visited on a recent month-long solo trip through the American Southwest. As if to underscore the fact that it is WAY off the beaten path, you make a turn northward on a dirt road at a sign that says ‘Middle [...]