I’ve been intrigued by deserts ever since I first visited one as a teenager. The first impression I remember having is of a lifeless, hostile and barren place. It’s certainly a hostile environment but I couldn’t have been more wrong…
I’ve heard of taking a cooking class as part of a stay in Thailand or Italy, but now San Francisco Cooking School is offering day-long classes, in addition to their very serious professional career curriculum. From wine to steak to pastry…
So far at least, no one has identified the location for this travel puzzle. PHeymont correctly identified it as “Skull Rock”, but did not provide a more specific site. Gumbo was visiting one of America’s most unusual parks, Joshua…
Desert flowers after a wet spring No one claimed bragging rights this week, although Travel Luver named the place…but along with a few other places it reminded him of. But it is Death Valley, home of Wiley Coyote and the Road Runner; of the…
Seems like every day there’s a new airport upgrade in the works; some of it is just overdue, and some reflects the new competitive arena now that there are only three big “legacy” carriers. Unlike point-to-point carriers like Virgin America or…
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil…
Yelp, the popular crowd-source review site, will now offer Los Angeles County’s health grades for restaurants as part of its reviews. With public health grades for restaurants happening in more and more cities, including New York, will this become a …
Here’s the discussion to go with this WITW. As you can see from the comment thread attached to theoriginal link, a lot of people had good ideas about this destination. And how lucky is a city to have not one, but two…
Here’s the discussion to the picture puzzle posted nearly a week ago. Gumbo, like you, was enjoying the nice soft light of dusk over Long Beach’s Harbor in Southern California. He was studying the massive Queen Mary in the distance…
I’ve been intrigued by deserts ever since I first visited one as a teenager. The first impression I remember having is of a lifeless, hostile and barren place. It’s certainly a hostile environment but I couldn’t have been more wrong…
I’ve heard of taking a cooking class as part of a stay in Thailand or Italy, but now San Francisco Cooking School is offering day-long classes, in addition to their very serious professional career curriculum. From wine to steak to pastry…
So far at least, no one has identified the location for this travel puzzle. PHeymont correctly identified it as “Skull Rock”, but did not provide a more specific site. Gumbo was visiting one of America’s most unusual parks, Joshua…
Desert flowers after a wet spring No one claimed bragging rights this week, although Travel Luver named the place…but along with a few other places it reminded him of. But it is Death Valley, home of Wiley Coyote and the Road Runner; of the…
Seems like every day there’s a new airport upgrade in the works; some of it is just overdue, and some reflects the new competitive arena now that there are only three big “legacy” carriers. Unlike point-to-point carriers like Virgin America or…
The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil…
Yelp, the popular crowd-source review site, will now offer Los Angeles County’s health grades for restaurants as part of its reviews. With public health grades for restaurants happening in more and more cities, including New York, will this become a …
Here’s the discussion to go with this WITW. As you can see from the comment thread attached to theoriginal link, a lot of people had good ideas about this destination. And how lucky is a city to have not one, but two…
Here’s the discussion to the picture puzzle posted nearly a week ago. Gumbo, like you, was enjoying the nice soft light of dusk over Long Beach’s Harbor in Southern California. He was studying the massive Queen Mary in the distance…
