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Written by Russell Johnson
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What would you do if could guiltlessly take a month off? Europeans do it all the time, but for North Americans, a month untethered from a Blackberry is a mean feat. I can't comprehend the terror of deciding how I would spend my time. What if I blew it on some thumb-sucking search for vortexes in Sedona or inadvertently booked a cruise to nowhere with a convention of top-performing insurance agents? But then, what if I did something truly exotic, as Rick Antonson did: hitch my fate to a lurching train, a riverboat, a camel, a sputtering four-wheeler, and a dodgy tour arranger for a journey to Timbuktu. Oh, and what about those ancient manuscripts?
Kathmandu, Kalamazoo, Timbuktu...all aboard!
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Written by Russell Johnson
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Review:
Nikon D80 Digital SLR
Nikon's D80 digital single lens reflex camera offers 10.2 megapixels and may, with its kit 18-135mm lens, be the ideal travel camera. If you don't mind the size and weight it is much more user-friendly than your typical point and shoot and oh, the thunk it makes when take a picture is sooo satisfying.
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Written by Russell Johnson
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Blurb: Fast Pass to the Realm of the Literati
by Russell Johnson
Watch out National Geographic, Smedley’s Amazing Auspicious
Adventures in Full-Color is nipping at your heels. You, yes you over there
with the dorky photographer’s vest and the bazooka lens…you can publish
your own coffee table book for just a little bit more than the price of
a pound of Starbuck’s finest.
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Written by Russ Johnson
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Bissap Baobab 2323 Mission St., San Francisco
A friend turned me on to a neighborhood place in the Mission District called Bissap Baobab. It is Senegalese. The usual vehicles -- chicken, fish and lamb -- are adorned with cumin, chiles, ginger and served on couscous or rice with fried plantain. Yum! If you fancy martinis, try a not-so-traditional melange of gin, ginger and grapefruit. The place is crowded and noisy but fun. Worth a trip to San Francisco’s Mission District which, after a pause following the dot com crash, is inching upscale again. |
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Written by Pat Meier-Johnson
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AsiaSF
201 9th St San Francisco
This is a true San Francisco restaurant, in the best sense. Good dining mixed with Barbary Coast bawdiness and a touch of the North Beach of the 60s. Gorgeous "gender illusionists" dance on the bar while diners enjoy a supurb Asian fusion menu (how about wasabi tobiko caviar)? This is not a tawdry strip joint (although I wouldn't bring mom) but sexy, howlin' fun combined with semi-gourmet dining. |
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