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
I’ve got a terrific new toy, the Olympus Stylus Tough-8000. It’s a 12mp pocket camera, a little tiny thing that, well, it fits in my pocket. I haven’t ditched Nikon D200 SLR by any means, but this little baby does some stuff that my Nikon won’t. It shoots video and, more importantly, goes underwater. I’ve …