Category: Travel
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Two Wrights Don’t Make it Rong
This was written on 12/16/2003, and emailed to a bunch of friends, family and co-workers. I pity them. In the nearly 21 years since I wrote this article, it is amazing to see all the changes that have happened to airline travel: Fees, More fees, Still More Fees, and Spirit Airlines.
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Going Around in Circles
I saw a bumper sticker that read “I’m Taking the Long Way – Siri gave me directions”. How true. Despite my continuing conspiracy theory about how Siri is trying to kill us, I had time to ponder this on my way to the desert to see Mom. Little did I know that I’d be gaining…
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iPhone EMT
Face it – we are now physiologically connected to our phones. It occurs to me that EMT’s must be trained for this sort of emergency – diagnosing someone who is conserving power, who’s shut off, or who’s Wi-Fi is down (I leave this to your imagination). Or the worst case – they lost their phone…
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LarryLand Meets DisneyLand
So our friends Matt and Heidi made the dubious decision to take their kids on an 8+ hour drive from Northern California to visit Disneyland for 3 days. It’s “Magical” as my daughter would say. Its exhausting is what I would say; we have experience. However, they’re wonderful people and we jumped at the chance…
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Thirty-Six years in the Making
After 36 years, we finally get to spend Thanksgiving with you in Vermont. We may never be the same – at the very least we’ll probably never lose the approximately 1,000 pounds we gained feasting. Thanksgiving is a time of tradition, regardless the coast you are on. We visited from California, 36 years in the…
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Getting it Wright
In this morning’s papers, there was a quote that Orville and Wilbur Wright proved in 1903 that “you could make a heavier-than-air craft that would take off and fly and not fall down, but it didn’t mean you could fly from Los Angeles to London right away”. That’s true – you still had to clear…
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The Cook I Want To Be
My favorite bookstore in Sonoma, Reader’s Books, has a great cookbook selection. I happened across this book. It begs the question, exactly what kind of cook do I want to be? My friends and family would say either Jacques Pepin or Julia Child. They would be sure that the are correct. They would be wrong.…
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Twenty Years
Twenty years. That’s how many years we have come to Sonoma County for vacation. Time has passed very quickly indeed. Still, every time that we start the drive up Highway 12 from Sonoma to Santa Rosa I still can’t believe how beautiful this place is and how lucky we are to be here.
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I’m a NY City Transit Authority
Getting around the Big Apple takes a bit of work. This is a city that has not a single apple tree, but lots of cabs; their honking is why it is a city that “never sleeps”. More to the point, it is an experiment in Social Darwinism. Only the strong survive.
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The First and Last
What makes a good wine? Go to any tasting room and they’ll tell you of the process. Ignore them. They’ve never made wine. We learned more about wine simply sitting around their table on the farm. A couple of bottles, some really good cheese from Sharon’s Cheese Shop (no she didn’t own it, but we…
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