Travel adventures
I used to have a little blurb on my “about” page that read something like this: Freelance technical writing pays my bills. In between gigs, I submit stories to travel, culture and outdoors publications in hopes that one day, Conde Nast will call. Today was that day. This morning, at about 9am, Conde Nast called. …
Sunsets and Shooting Stars: A Cape Cod Memoir is a light-hearted and sentimental collection of memories of visits to Cape Cod by Rick Seidel. Seidel uses nice descriptive language to put you in the back of the family’s rusty truck on the way out to the cape and his characters are three dimensional enough, but …
Vancouver Canada’s Dr. Sun Yat Sen garden
Welcome to another edition of the Carnival of Cities! I do enjoy hosting this carnival – I get to (virtually) see all kinds of places I’d never come across otherwise. Thanks for the submissions!
Wow, there are loads of links this week, let’s see if I can make sense out of them. To set the tone, let’s have a little accordion music. It’s all below the break…
“Were you in Vietnam recently?” he asked me, pointing at my cap with the Vietnam flag just above the brim. He was a broad faced guy, Nordic looking and very tan, maybe in his 50’s, extremely healthy – the picture of fitness you’d expect from a park ranger. He was sitting behind the desk at …
This morning our house is chock-a-block with jetlagged Austrians, they’re stacked like cord wood down in the basement. (If you’ve been to Austria, you know they are very skilled at stacking. They are a stacking people, a nation of stackers. ) Last night, we took them for pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) which I swear is …