Category Travel
Gastronomical Happiness
I got home from work today and — lo and behold — waiting in my mailbox was The Michelin Guide to New York City restaurants! I was surprised and delighted but also a tad baffled — I hadn’t ordered the book, and the birthday/holiday season is well past. Then I saw the note: “Wishing you […]
Boise – Raclette Party
I gave Heather and Jordan a raclette grill for Christmas last month. It was a gift motivated, in part, by the fact that I genuinely thought they would enjoy eating raclette and having people over to share it with them. It was also motivated by my own interest in eating raclette — I knew that […]
Boise – Dancing Queen
Both Brynn and Shae are in ballet, and this week I had the great luck of attending one of their recitals! It was great fun to see them get dressed up in their costumes, makeup and hairdos. They were clearly in little girl heaven as they became the beautiful princesses of the day. Shae, loving […]
Boise – Life Aquatic
A new aquarium recently opened in Boise. It’s a relatively small affair, stuck in a random strip mall between a pawn shop and a party place. But it’s the only aquarium in town and had been getting a lot of attention among the younger-than-ten crowd. Since yesterday was a day off from school, Heather and I took the kids to check […]
Boise in the snow
Yesterday, after a great visit chez les parents, I flew up to Boise for Part II of this January vacation. Mark met me at the airport in his Jeep and gave me a ride to Heather’s house, where we had a fun afternoon playing with the kids (being the favorite uncle that I am, of course […]
Death Valley
Death Valley is the hottest, dryest and lowest spot in North America. It’s an extreme moonscape; a fantastic geological kaleidoscope of rock, salt flats and a handful of insane plants. It’s also only about 150 miles from Las Vegas, so on Monday morning we packed our lunches, filled our water bottles, donned our Lawrence of Arabia costumes, and […]
Las Vegas – The Strip
Paris has class but not much glitz. Las Vegas has no class and lots of glitz. It also has Paris. See it there, in the distance? Not being gamblers or strip-club enthusiasts, my family doesn’t really do Las Vegas the same way most people do. Through the swirling crowds of women in stilettos and men in aggressively un-tucked […]
Las Vegas – Hoover Dam
While everyone else was enjoying a year-end holiday over Christmas and New Year’s, I was working. But now, while everyone else is back at the grindstone, I’m on vacation! The major projects that had kept me so busy through the end of the year are now completed, and the few other projects that I still have are […]
Booked!
Buying airplane tickets is by far the most tedious stage of travel. In order to identify the perfect schedule/price combination, I inevitably end up with approximately eighty-seven web pages open at once — one for each schedule permutation — through which I then toggle anxiously back and forth to make sure that what appears to be the winning ticket is […]
Dashing through the snow…
After putting in a surprisingly busy 4.6 hours of work today, I’m off to Ashley’s house for Christmas! Naturally, I come bearing gifts (only some of which are for me). And food from the German bakery (because Ashley’s taking care of the chocolate cake). butter cookies, apple pie, cranberry-walnut bread And a lint roller (because not having one can be […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 