Travel adventures
I’m an opinionated cuss and I’ve been reviewing gear for travelers on and off for nearly ten years. While Hannukah is behind us, it’s not too late to get the other folks in your family, chosen or otherwise, something excellent as a gift because it’s Christmas, Kwanzaa, Festivus, the end of the year, or just …
They fix the camera angle so don’t fret — that clipped angle at the beginning is fine a few minutes in — be patient. And here is my interview, the whole thing, with what one audience member calls the “Best Astronaut Ever.” It’s long, but it’s Chris Hadfield, so it — forgive me — flies …
Here’s the scenario — I was planning a trip to San Francisco and I wanted to spend one evening in the city with friends that live there. We planned to get dinner and, I’ll just say it, do some drinking. I wanted to be able to stumble back to my bed when we were done. …
We forget how easy it is to buzz down I-5 to our sister city to the South. But I had been invited to check out the Governor Hotel’s “Sherlock” package — a night in the hotel, a credit at the restaurant/bar downstairs, a deerstalker cap, and passes to the Sherlock show at OMSI — the …
I was asked to contribute to this series on AOL Travel for the U.N. declared International Day of the Girl. Its mission is “to help galvanize worldwide enthusiasm for goals to better girls’ lives, providing an opportunity for them to show leadership and reach their full potential.” AOL Travel asked five women to write a …
The salmon run. It’s a verb, in this case. The salmon are hurling themselves out of Issaquah Creek. They mean to cross the weir and head further upstream to spawn. But there’s a barrier up and most of them can’t quite clear it, though they achieve a shocking amount of altitude. We stand on the …