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Category: (People We've Met)
... the storefronts of designer jewelery stores from Paris, to Las Vegas, to the Middle East to New York's Fifth Avenue. I had read about the garimpieros, the dodgy freelance gem hunters of Minis Gerais. ...Created on 10 May 2013 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Technology Showcase)
... Electronics Show in Las Vegas and brought a few goodies for show and tell: Hufa Lens Cap Tourist trails are paved with misplaced lens caps. This clips on your camera strap A simple $9.95 solution. Sanho ...Created on 22 January 2013 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... in too deeply, but as I edged ever more deeply into the rear of the North Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center, a faint odor that reminded me of my childhood and the fragrance of my mother's closet ...Created on 24 January 2012 -
Category: (Video)
... State Park, in Nevada is hardly Kansas, although Dorothy would be quite pleased with its yellow rock roads. The Valley of Fire is the perfect place to go to get out that outlaw town Las Vegas, as we did ...Created on 18 January 2012 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... State Park, in Nevada is hardly Kansas, although Dorothy would be quite pleased with its yellow rock roads. The Valley of Fire is the perfect place to go to get out that outlaw town Las Vegas, as we did ...Created on 18 January 2012 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
So, what's new in tech aside from snake-up-your-nose 3D TV sets. What digital bling turned the heads of the 150 thousand gearheads who descended upon Las Vegas last week for the Consumer Electronics ...Created on 17 January 2012 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Technology Showcase)
... streamed from the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas over a regular telephone line. I scanned photos with a two thousand dollar scanner, schlepped suitcases full of heavy cameras and tapes through ...Created on 22 April 2011 -
Category: (Video)
sZ134uVSu9U iPad/iPhone Video Last week I drove from Las Vegas to Palm Springs passing through the Mojave National Preserve and Joshua Tree National Park. While the desert is gorgeous in color, I see ...Created on 15 January 2011 -
Category: (Video)
... the sinking oasis of Las Vegas is placing its bets here. Macau, is out Vegasing Vegas already in gambling revenues and if you look at the otherworldly palaces rising from under the construction cranes, ...Created on 05 October 2010 -
Category: (Asia)
... like Godzilla, tossed trolley cars around Hong Kong. Ka-Ching? (a Chinese expression?) Like Vegas in the 90s, this former Portuguese backwater colony, now called East Las Vegas, has gone over-the-top. ...Created on 26 January 2010 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Radio)
... The Tall Trees: California's RedwoodsThe_Tall_Trees-Books Old Las Vegas: Stories from the man who taught Don Rickles to Water ski.Old_Las_Vegas_with_Freddie_G Gear and Gloating in Las Vegas: ...Created on 16 April 2009 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... up at a gym. But last fall I admit to having a ball at the SEMA show in Las Vegas. SEMA is the acronym for the accurate but unsexy moniker of the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association, representing ...Created on 08 September 2008 -
Category: (US/Canada)
Traffic at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas (c) Russell Johnson When will it end? Why as our salaries shrink, our expectations dwindle, our house values plummet, our IRAs squeal like piggies ...Created on 21 January 2008 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... Big Asparagus and whiten the teeth of Valley Girls, it would be as desolate as the steppes of Central Asia. Driving through the high desert between Bakersfield and Las Vegas I note two landmarks: a graveyard ...Created on 14 January 2008 -
Category: (Essays)
... never will be...no way. The report cites the "What Happens in Vegas" mentality and morning-after pool parties with $20 dollar cocktails, pajama parties on cruise-to-nowhere ships and Caribbean resorts ...Created on 21 November 2007 -
Category: (Asia)
... and Las Vegas interests are vying for a cut of the action as well. The old Lisboa and its crowded, seedy casino, which once stood alone in creating Macau's ethos, is now dwarfed by glitzier gaming halls ...Created on 03 August 2006 -
Category: (Asia)
... a few unnatural ones like a Vegas-style volcano that erupts nightly at the behest of a fire snorting dragon and the Teddy Bear Museum featuring Teddies in tableaus ranging from The Last Supper to the tomb ...Created on 31 July 2006 -
Category: (Europe)
... an off-the-strip $17 a night Las Vegas special. What it is doing in a UNESCO protected historical area is beyond me . This is a stunning little neighborhood, though, the kind of place we would all like ...Created on 24 July 2006 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... accordion into the mix. Argentine tango great Astor Piazzola had a hit CD with jazz master Gerry Mulligan and this year the First Annual Accordion Convention convenes in Las Vegas. Cotati, on the cusp ...Created on 19 July 2006 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... in Las Vegas, they fit quite well strutting about the garden of the old Flamingo Hotel, as do live penguins and a monument to Bugsy Segal, the wise guy who built the place. The Flamingo is old Vegas, a ...Created on 03 July 2006