Tips: Better travel photos
No names, but I once sat through a slideshow of someone's travels that included 300 images. About 50 in, I realized they had dumped their memory card and included every,…
Places: Bisbee, Arizona
In my mind, Bisbee, Arizona's center of gravity is located somewhere between the wild west days and the shutdown of the Copper Queen Mine in the '70s. Those challenging and…
Places: Death Valley Junction
The Amargosa Opera House stands at the corner of State Line Road and California Route 127, in a place now called Death Valley Junction. In the early 1920s it was…
Fare wars
After a relatively slow summer for airfare sales, the last few weeks have seen competition heat up. Beth and I had a list of places we were interested in visiting…
Practical matters: passports
Last week I started the passport renewal process. The good news: If you're a US citizen you only have to do this every ten years. The bad: 2018 is the…
Travel’s missing ingredient
Yelp, TripAdvisor, Instagram, Google Street view and countless other always-available web sites and services have drained travel of a critical ingredient: Mystery. How often do most of us land in…
Food Matters: Paris
One of the pleasures of travel is finding good, local food. And one of my favorite cities for eating is Paris, thanks to an exploding culture of creative cooking that…
Turin, Eataly, and catching a ride with a stranger
I had only a vague idea where we were, which wasn't comforting since we were sitting in the backseat of a stranger's car. After getting in the car 30 minutes…
Go when you want, see what you like
Whenever I run across the question, "What should I see when I visit [blank]?" I can guess most of the answers. Helpful folks will respond with a list of the…