Disclaimer: BC Ferries and Camping and RV in BC sponsored our travels. I love to travel in British Columbia. It’s just up the road from my home in Seattle, but it’s still a whole different country. It’s easy to travel there — there’s no language barrier — but the slight shifts in cultural norms make …
Photographed with permission at the Neon Museum, Las Vegas, Nevada. It’s worth clicking through to see them full size on Flickr. I should be able to tell you all kinds of cool stories about the Neon Boneyard, but the truth is, I wasn’t totally paying attention to the guide. As great as he was, it …
1. The Bus: Travel friends assured me that public transit from the airport in Vegas was nearly impossible to find, a conspiracy to make you take a cab. This made me wildly determined to find the bus, get on it, and get off at my hotel. I’d looked it up while still at home, I …
Disclaimer: My headphones came from the marketing/PR folks at Able Planet. I don’t board a flight without a pair of noise canceling headphones. I also bring standard earbuds. They have different uses — I don’t need the big headphones when I’m up with insomnia, but I love having them on the plane — and sometimes …
Setting: Hudson News stand, departures terminal, Vegas airport. I stopped into buy the Pepto Bismol I’d been seeking for about 24 hours. Aside — you’d think they’d sell that stuff in vending machines on the casino floor, next to packets of Alka Seltzer, rehydrating drinks, and a hefty array of painkillers, but I was striking …
Sunset from my living room. Willie K show at the Triple Door Half B at Cafe Rozella in White Center