We like to share great looking vehicles we encounter on our travels! Most people love the sight of a well maintained classic car. I came across this beauty just a few days ago while tanking up our (comparatively standard and dull)...
Alaska Airlines announced it will configure its new 737-900 aircraft with larger overhead bins. These bins have 48% increased storage space, much needed in this era of check-in luggage fees. Kudos to Alaska for responding favorably to...
This post concludes tales of my road-trip around the Emerald Isle (though I've still got a few things to share about Dublin); if you want to catch up on prior posts, you can find them at this link . I don't think this road-trip series could end...
Resplendently hairy and sitting on the steps leading to the large "Shri Sankat Mochan" temple dedicated to the revered Monkey God, Hanuman.
1) Overview of Ireland Road trip around Ireland: 2) Rock of Cashel 3) Kenmare 4) Ring of Kerry 5) Town of Dingle 6) Slea Head/Dingle Peninsula and Galarus Oratory 7) Cliffs of Moher 8) Northern Ireland/Portrush 9) Giant's Causeway...
Iquitos, a surprisingly large town in the very heart of the Amazon rainforest in Peru, is one of the biggest cities in the world that’s unreachable by road. We had sailed down the Amazon river from Colombia to reach it, and now found ourselves...
Last weekend I was invited to try out this new spot in South Beach – South of Fifth to be exact (SoFi), and I think I have fallen in love. We are always looking for that healthier option for breakfast and lunch that is not only great for your...
One of the most fascinating pieces of public art I've ever seen is this one in Chicago. Known as Cloud Gate, it sits in Millennium Park. When I first saw it a number of years ago, I wrote the following about it which I...
The airplane seat of the future will have innovative designs that should improve the comfort of flying, like the change in reclining highlighted in the drawing below Check out some of these features in this post by the UK Daily Mail.
A Finnish company called HappyOrNot is supplying Spain's airport authority with quick-check terminals to test passenger satisfaction with aspects of airport security and service. The terminals have four buttons, with emoticons ranging from a happy...
The market area of Kuching isn’t, as in other towns I visited in Borneo, in one main building. It’s spread around in a compact area of the city, on streets with names like Jalan Market and Jalan Main Bazaar.
Every city has typical street food and vendors—New York's hot dogs and souvlaki, Philadelphia's pretzels, Amsterdam's herring—but Berlin, like Vienna, specializes in sausages, especially currywurst, a bratwurst slathered in...
Gumbo is a sucker for a well-made building and fine detail...but you have to be careful with this one because despite looking as if M.C. Escher had a hand in its design, its actually a functional day-to-day building. Events within the building...
The famed Terra Cotta Warriors are Xian's premier tourist attraction. The life-size clay army was unearthed from the mausoleum of China’s First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang.
Although it may not look very impressive, this modest little building has a very impressive and important musical history. Welcome to RCA Studio B in Nashville, Tennessee. Known as "The Home of 1,000 Hits", more than 35,000...