Category Food
Mudslides and peach cobbler
On Friday morning Mark and I drove up north to go hiking around Blue Lake and have lunch in McCall, Idaho. He didn’t have class or work, and the weather was perfect; I was looking forward to a fun day in Nature with my brother. Only we didn’t get there. Roughly half-way between Boise and […]
Layover rendez-vous
Okay, so this was awesome: My flight from Salt Lake City to Reno went through Denver, where I had a two-hour layover. Not enough time to leave the airport to visit Amanda, but plenty of time for her to meet me for a late lunch on the other side of the security line. The […]
Brunch with the ladies (and the Great Waffle Taste-Off of 2013)
There’s nothing quite like last-minute travel changes to make for fun adventures. Take yesterday, for example. The original plan was to fly out to Salt Lake City, where I would spend a few days helping to care for Lady (who just had total knee-replacement surgery) and, during the down time, catching up with some mission and […]
Pippin, Vanya et al., and another Michelin star
As much as I love the Met Museum, what I really love in New York are the performing arts and the food. So after spending this morning at the Met, I walked back down to Midtown and spent the rest of the day eating and seeing two wonderful shows. The first show I saw was […]
Punk and bagpipes at the Met
There’s nothing quite like an unstructured Saturday in New York — especially when it follows a super-structured and tedious day of recruiting. After spending all day yesterday interviewing eager young law students (and then spending much of the night making notes and getting ready for all the reference checks and meetings with the hiring partners […]
The Ride: Mason Neck
This morning dawned grey and chilly and very humid. I wasn’t exactly ready to get up, but I’d agreed to meet up with some friends from the ward for a Saturday morning bike ride. We left a little after 7:00am and returned right before 11am, and in the intervening three-ish hours we made it down […]
Siem Reap
This isn’t really a post. I mean, it’s a post because it shows up in the blog, but I’m not really going to do proper justice to anything that I write about. I’ll mention some things that I don’t have photos for (yet), and other things that I have tons of photos for but which merit […]
Mekong River Delta – The yin and the yang
Today was an exercise in appreciating the principle that there must be opposition in all things. And by “appreciating”, I mean “feeling really annoyed by” (for the most part, anyway; by the end of the day things sort of balanced out). Having seen the major sights in Saigon yesterday, we set aside today for a […]
Saigon – City highlights by motorbike
As in every other city we’ve visited in Vietnam, Saigon’s streets are teeming with thousands of motorbikes zooming in what seems like (and often is) every direction. This morning, we joined the throngs for a “city highlights” tour by motorbike. We booked through XO Tours, and so this morning we were met at the hotel by […]
Hue to Danang to Saigon
Today was one of those transitional days where the bulk of the time is spent in transit from one stage of the trip to the next. In this case, we went from Hue (technically part of North Vietnam, though only just barely) back to Danang (on the other side of the North/South line, and the […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 