Heads up! Our travels to Portland, meals, stays, activities and such, were covered by Travel Portland. “We like to make fun of you in Seattle,” I told our indulgent guide. We were standing outside one of Portland’s food card pods eating Bosnian burek, a spinach and feta stuffed pastry. “See, you’re cooler than we are. …
“Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won’t die.” — Mark Twain “It’s the price of admission.” Clemens, the penguin guy, and I were talking about crossing the Drake. He’d told me that his daughter gets seasick something terrible, …
The plan was to see the Museum of Precolombian Art, get some lunch downtown, and then, do a bit more museum time elsewhere. I would head back to Eileen‘s place after a good wander, and then, later that afternoon, we would go to the Hilton to meet my friend Andrew, who had serendipitously arrived in …
Or, how to create a fake business and fake news. Cost? Two dollars. Time investment? Six hours, but you can do it in less. Register your domain. Travelcation.info cost me 1.98. With tax. No joke. I already had hosting. Throw up an instant website. I fussed with this over a period of about two days, …
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Certain people I know continually suggest that I “need” to write a book. They may or may not be right about this. See, I have worked on books in some capacity or other. I wrote a guidebook, something I’d rather not do again (though I wouldn’t mind writing front matter, it’s the details I couldn’t …