Travel
on August 18, 2019 at 9:11 am ×
Astros baseball and doubles tennis played quietly over the bar on 46″ flat screen TVs, reminding diners of three things: this is casual, this is local, and this is undeniably European. Your server will be right with you. Enjoy. You’re about to have the best lunch in Houston. Carnivores will […]
Travel
on July 26, 2019 at 7:27 pm ×
Here’s are 14 incredible destinations and experiences you can still have this summer! But hurry, August is like, NEXT WEEK! From star gazing in Nebraska to Vela Sailing at Club Med Cancun and legendary water parks in Texas to being tucked into bed by a pirate in Florida, a last […]
France / Travel
on June 24, 2019 at 4:57 pm ×
The guy at the register seemed excited to practice his English so I dropped any pretense of having worked on my French. He smiled and handed me my change, 37.20 from a 50, the last of the twelve I’d withdrawn from an ATM in Le Havre 9 days ago. His […]
Travel
on May 21, 2019 at 12:31 pm ×
A colorful flyer for a twerking competition, pink neon script on black gloss, was taped to the window of a restaurant in Pompey Square in Nassau Bahamas. A lone pair dined alfresco. The waitress sat on a high top chair, slumped over behind the hostess stand in the shade beneath […]
Travel
on May 3, 2019 at 10:00 am ×
Whale in Norway, frog legs at sea, and a parade of red meat across the American heartland; menus are a minefield when traveling the world as a vegetarian. But just as there are bastions of blue in a sea of red, there are plants sprouting up in U.S. cow pastures. […]
Travel
on May 2, 2019 at 8:38 am ×
When my wife and I first became parents and decided we would be investing in childhood above all else by pouring disposable income into experiences instead of accumulating more and more stuff and, controversial in some circles, in place of saving for college. When we become parents, we dreamed of […]
Travel
on April 23, 2019 at 11:36 am ×
You don’t know anything about Norwich; you don’t know where Norwich is or what’s there worth seeing. Norwich isn’t London but it’s not far from the capital, at least not in an American road trip sense of the relative word ‘far’; about 100 miles north-northeast as the crow flies. Norwich […]
Sports
on February 13, 2019 at 11:27 am ×
I rolled the car along a stretch of black between the glistening artificial green of the training pitch and the two-tone, two-story facade of Huish Park’s main stand. Yeovil Town’s academy kids (or maybe it was the first team — I couldn’t have known) were being put through their paces […]