Myanmar aka Burma: A Video Road Trip
Posted on May 17, 2012 - Filed Under Video, Burma, Myanmar, Places | Leave a Comment
I took a video road trip through Myanmar before last year’s march toward liberalization and the deluge of tourists that could change it forever. You may never see it this way again. Story and YouTube Video at connectedtraveler.com
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 [...]
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