About59 posts categorized "Travel"
November 16, 2024
May 03, 2021
More Unlimited Data is an Oxymoron
It started with having to upgrade my “unlimited” plan to increase the data limit. We’re on the road, and the WiFi at Wisconsin State Fair RV Park is almost but not quite good enough for serious Zooms (about 1.5 Mbps up and down with More...
April 29, 2021
March 19, 2019
Washington Monument Closed Indefinitely
Is that telling us something?
On September 26, 2016 the Washington Monument was closed for repairs to its elevator. “It’s a long-term closure, one that will be measured in months,” said a spokesman for the National Park Service as More...
January 02, 2019
An Invaluable Lesson in Colonial Williamsburg
In Colonial Williamsburg our grandchildren Jack (10) and Lily (9) learned that even the most important arguments have two sides. They also learned a lot of American history.
We went to an enactment called “Trial of a Patriot”. The assump More...
March 22, 2018
Oil Prices Are Going Down: The Wickenburg Indicator
Only a fool would predict commodity prices, so I’ll do that. I’ve been to Wickenburg and I know oil prices are headed down
Wickenburg’s in Arizona, a little more than an hour northwest of Phoenix. It’s on the Hassayampa River. Most of the time you can drive on the river bed, but the cotto More...
November 01, 2017
The Zen of Bicycle Tire Changing
Mary and I just spent a wonderful five days biking down the coast of Portugal from Porto (from whence Port Wine gets its name) to Praia de Sao Pedro de Moel. Much of the ancient forest we cycled through had burned to a crisp in the last few months (more in a future post). The beaches were wonderf More...
April 04, 2017
Were You Communists?
Mary and I visited North and South Vietnam on two separate trips in the last couple of years. Couple of weeks as a tourist makes you an expert on exactly nothing but we did learn a lot.
In Hanoi there’s a war museum. The Vietnamese have been in lots of wars. Usually they win; sometimes th More...
March 13, 2017
Fair Warning in the Desert
A racket overloaded my hearing aids. It sounded mechanical at first but I was in the McDowell Sonoran Preserve reslinging my pack after a snack and getting ready for the last long uphill of the day; nothing mechanical there. Then atavism overcame analysis and instinct recognized the sound. The ra More...