Asheville, NC Has Gotten All Hipped-Up!
Dogwood tree in Bloom, April 2012 For the last 200 or so years, my family has been living in the hills around Asheville, N.C. This means I’ve been going to Asheville ever since I...
Category: travel
Sounds of the Budapest Subway….
One of the things I loved most about Budapest was the sounds that the vintage subway made. It’s the cutest subway in the world!
I have no idea why these sounds aren’t offered as standard text tones on the iPhone!
Samurai Culture is in for Christmas
A couple of years ago, I was lucky enough to spend nearly the whole month of December in Japan. I fell in love with Japanese food–not just sushi–and realized just how little I really...
Other people write about Latvia!
One of the curious things about regularly visiting a small country where you don’t speak the language is that when you leave, it’s like the country–except for your friends– vanishes from your world. Good...
Reading the Book “One Day” Moments Before the Movie Came Out!
On my way back to Austin from my summer adventures, I read the novel One Day by David Nicholls. I read it in pretty much one giant gulp. While I had toyed with the...
Eating in the airport
Thanks to a summer of discount travel, I’ve spent a lot of time in airports. Since I’m too cheap to buy a first class ticket–and too impatient to put up with long layovers–my frequent...
The Space Shuttle I Knew
*If I hadn’t been too lazy to drag my laptop to a Latvian coffee shop with a decent Internet connection, this would have been published on July 21st. But I was lazy. When I...
FOOD: New England Seafood
I spent last week seeing the sights of New England with my family. Being that it’s my family, it included a lot of stops for noshing. (And a few stops for shopping.) Pictured on...
Yankeeland: Tips for the Southerner
For the last week, I’ve been in Yankeeland with my family.I’ve hung out with my extended family in a grouping that’s too complex to try and detail to anyone who doesn’t already know them....
