Holiday in Nerdland: Our stories and videos from the Consumer Electronics Show
Posted on January 23, 2012 - Filed Under Gadgets & Cameras, Las Vegas, Tech & Science | Leave a Comment
Our perilous trek through the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in search of gadgets and apps of interest to the traveler. From The Connected Traveler
Read More..>>Sacrifice of the Extra Virgins
Posted on December 5, 2011 - Filed Under Food & Wine, Sonoma | Leave a Comment
In the Mediterranean, olive oil was a wonder substance, used as a medicine, a skin oil, a soap, even as fuel. Fill’er up with Extra Virgin please! Olive oil tastes good and doesn’t clog your plumbing. Hercules planted olive trees by pounding them into the ground with his hunky arms. Father Serra (he of the [...]
Read More..>>Beethoven, Manatees and Ringtones: A Night with LA PHIL
Posted on November 28, 2011 - Filed Under California, Culture, Entertainment | Leave a Comment
Spent an evening at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in LA last week, my first visit to the warmest sounding (and looking) concert hall I have ever experienced. It did justice to a deeply satisfying performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 2 by pianist Emanuel Ax, and managed to take the rough edges off of [...]
Read More..>>Moving to a Tourist Town: Sonoma, California
Posted on November 22, 2011 - Filed Under Sonoma, Sustainable Tourism | Leave a Comment
After spending most of my life as either a city dweller or a mountain hermit, I have now opted for the in-between, the idyl of small town life in a tourist destination. I have moved to the middle of a city block. There are houses to the right of me, houses to the left: a [...]
Read More..>>Burmese Days
Posted on November 18, 2011 - Filed Under Burma | Leave a Comment
Bagan, Burma-Russell Johnson Who would have thought that practically overnight Aung San Suu Kyi would be allowed back into politics and a US Secretary of State would plan a visit to Burma for the first time in fifty years. When I spent some time there in the 90s, Burma was a country of spies and [...]
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