THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A WRITER, READER, EDITOR, TRAVELER, TEACHER AND PUBLIC SPEAKER.
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I’m always in the mood for a great travel read, and of course I have my favorite travel writers — Rolf Potts and Bill Bryson are at the top of my list.
And I love it when really good travel pieces show up in places I don’t expect. For example, I recently read a great travel [...]
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Usually, Sunday nights are slow, calm and restful. Not so last night.
I hit the town and went to see the Afro-Cuban All Stars at Orchestra Hall in downtown Minneapolis.
Think Buena Vista Social Club. In fact, the Afro-Cuban All Stars is the band that the Buena Vista Social Club movie and subsequent albums are [...]
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My recent Louisiana daiquiri drive-thru experience has daiquiris on my mind.
They (daiquiris) make a strange subject — perhaps — for a blog entry, but it just so happens that I came home from my road trip through The South and got the bug to clean my office.
This bug doesn’t come along very often, so when [...]
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Today, GoNomad posted a story I wrote about taking the Greyhound to Mexico.
Yes, that’s right. I crossed the border on a bus.
Our end point was a pretty little town called Ensenada that is the heart of Mexico’s wine country. It’s just two hours south of San Diego on the Baja’s Pacific coast.
While [...]
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