Traveling Boost


There are a lot of people who enjoy traveling, like me.  Then again there are many people who do not prefer it, or do not feel like they have enough money to travel as often as they...

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A Goal to Travel More


Ringing in the New Year just would not be the same for me without me making a huge list of goals and resolutions.  Sadly, most of these ideas that I have for my new year to make it better...

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Airline Security Changes


Changes to airline security in the wake of the September 11 attacks by Muslim extremists on various civilian targets within the United States of America have been at time comforting...

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    • DARK PASSAGE December 7, 2011
      by Anthony Bourdain What do Norah Jones, Christopher Walken,  the band “ ****edUp”, Vegan Black Metal Chef,  Sam Brown, nightmare of Eastern European folklore Krampus, the Catalonian Pooping Log, Dave Arnold, chefs Lidia Bastianich,  April Bloomfield, Kurt Gutenbrunner, Eder Montero, Alexandra Raij, Carlos Llaguno Morales and the voices of Adam Richman and A […]
    • SOUTHERN COMFORT August 28, 2011
      I just got back from family vacation, where, for ten days, I violated all my rules and everything I’ve ever preached about how to travel.  I stayed put. I rarely left the hotel grounds.  I ate in the same two restaurants for most of my trip—rarely deviating from pasta, pizza and gelato. Though there was […]
    • SAFETY FIRST August 18, 2011
      In the end, we were all fine–as untouched and untroubled as we’d been before Iraq. If anything changed, if there was a single takeaway from what we saw in Kurdistan and what we learned during three days of “Hazardous Environment Training” in what our British instructors called “Virginiastan”, it was the absolutely jaw-dropping realization of […]
    • DESERT SESSION: A Letter to Josh Homme’s Daughter August 7, 2011
      Dear Camille, I hear you were very upset with me after seeing the promo for this show, which I filmed recently with your Daddy and his friends. You saw me take Daddy’s guitar and smash it against a tree and I’m sure that was upsetting. That this was in fact a not so subtle homage to […]