September 2010

Blast From The Past: That’s Some Church, Dude!

Trip Blog Posts

Chartres Cathedral is one of the more famous of Europe’s large churches. It boasts 176 stained class windows (some dating from the 13th century) and an intricately carved screen that runs in a semicircular path surrounding the choir area of the church. We arrived in Chartres from Normandy in early afternoon on Sunday, September 24th. [...]

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Travel Essay: The Year of Flying Dangerously (Part 3)

Travel Essays

(The second installment of Dick Jordan’s recollections of the events of September 11, 2001 appeared last Monday.  The story continues today). Arrival in Italy, At Last! The weather had been good for flying and only a few puffy clouds floated in the skies ahead of us.  We crossed the still snow-clad upper reaches of the [...]

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Travel Tech: Netflix On Your iPhone

App Reviews

Netflix Comes To The iPhone After months of waiting, Netflix customers who own iPhones got their wish to be able to connect to the movie service at least partially fulfilled when a free Netflix app recently became available. Netflix At Home Or On The Road My Windows XP desktop computer’s 21” diagonal monitor screen is [...]

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Destination Update (9/23/10)

Destination Updates

Here are this week’s travel destination stories on the Web: Off To Bodø, Norway (Matadortrips.com) “Glamping” in North Carolina (The Washington Post) Desert Island Discovery (GoNOMAD.com) 36 Hours in Rio (The New York Times) Maui Lavender Farm (Travel Weekly) The “Little House” World (Los Angeles Times) Getting Your Goat (AFAR Blog) Eating Dordogne (GoNOMAD.com) “Home-Style” [...]

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Travel News Update (9/22/10)

Travel News Updates

Here are this week’s travel and travel technology stories on the Web: “Saddle Up” To Fly? (The Seattle Times) Off-Planet Travel (The New York Times) Understanding Airfare Codes (AP via MercuryNews.com) Cruise West Cancels Future Cruises (The Seattle Times) Stretching $$$ In South America (The New York Times) Is Travel Only For The Rich? (National [...]

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Blast From The Past: Norman Comfort Food

Trip Blog Posts

(One of the pleasures our our stay in Normandy was the ability to lunch out at great little restaurants, and dine-in at the 400-year old stone farmhouse we’d rented in Bayeux.  Here’s a recap of some of the meals we enjoyed “in and out”). Cops & Robbers For the second night in a row, we’ve [...]

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Travel Essay: The Year of Flying Dangerously (Part 2)

Travel Essays

(The first installment of Dick Jordan’s recollections of the events of September 11, 2001 appeared last Monday.  The story continues today). Departure Day I turned on my computer before breakfast on Saturday and went to the Alitalia Website.  Departures to the U.S. had resumed. A plane from Milan to San Francisco was in the air, [...]

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Travel Tech: Remembering 9/11

App Reviews

The iPhone has coined a new phrase in the American lexicon:  “There’s an app for that.” If you are an iPhone owner, you know that there are something in excess of 250,000 iPhone apps covering nearly every use that one could conceive.  But I will bet you dollars to Megabytes of data download that you [...]

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Destination Update (9/16/10)

Destination Updates

Here are this week’s travel destination stories on the Web: Delicious Downtown L.A. (The New York Times) Boston’s Harbor Islands (The Washington Post) Flying Fish Eco-Village (GoNOMAD.com) Passage To Ancient Times (The New York Times) Twenty “Must Try” Restaurants (Chicago Tribune) Shakespeare, Shakespeare, Where Art Thou? (The Washington Post) 36 Hours In Charleston (The New [...]

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Travel News Update (9/15/10)

Travel News Updates

Here are this week’s travel and travel technology stories on the Web: Avoiding Airline “Add-On” Fees (Elliott.org) “Lexus Lanes” In The Sky (Chicago Tribune via The Seattle Times) Airport Scanner Risks (The New York Times) OpenSkies “Money-Back Guarantee” (AP via The Oregonian) U.S. To Tax Foreign Tourists (The Slatest) $9.99/Day Car Rentals (Maybe) (Chicago Tribune) [...]

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Blast From The Past: Ancient History

Trip Blog Posts

A storm blowing up the English Channel from Portugal in the South brought us some wind and rain late on Thursday night and into Friday morning. Hunched under our umbrellas, we walked a few blocks through the drizzle from our parking spot in Bayeux to the building housing its famous Tapestry.

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Travel Essay: The Year of Flying Dangerously

Travel Essays

When Evil Flies It was Tuesday morning. I had four days to catch up on work, pay bills, board the cats, and pack up my bags before departing on a 26-day trip to Italy.  I brushed my teeth. shaved, and showered.  I turned the radio on and tuned in KCBS to catch the “traffic and [...]

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Travel Tech: The Guidebook In Your iPhone (Part 3)

App Reviews

In previous posts I discussed options for downloading travel guidebooks to your iPhone from three on-line “bookstores”:  Amazon.com (purveyor of Kindle Books), Apple (which sells iBooks), and Barnes & Noble (vendor of Nook books).  But these are not the only available electronic guidebook outlets. Individual Author Guidebooks Fodor’s, Frommer’s, Lonely Planet, Moon, and other major [...]

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Destination Update (9/9/10)

Destination Updates

Here are this week’s travel destination stories on the Web: Run, Don’t Walk (The Washington Post) Surf’s Up, Art’s Up, At Paia (The New York Times) Rediscovering Newfoundland (GoNOMAD.com) Who Owns “David”? (The New York Times) Under Cover At A Prohibition Era Hotel (San Francisco Chronicle) 36 Hours In Silicon Valley (The New York Times) [...]

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Travel News Update (9/8/10)

Travel News Updates

Here are this week’s travel and travel technology stories on the Web: Know Your “Fly Rights” (U.S. Dept. of Transportation) The Cheapest Hot Spot On The Road (The New York Times) Unplugging On Vacation (AP) Movie Editing On Your iPhone4 (SFGate’s “Bad Latitude” Blog) Catching The Bus With Your Smartphone (The New York Times) Ticket [...]

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Blast From The Past: Remembering WWII In Normandy

Trip Blog Posts

On June 5, 1944, the Allies hit the beaches of Normandy in the D-Day assault against the Germans. This area has many museums, cemeteries, and other historic landmarks of that invasion. Monday, we went to Arromanches where the British built an incredible faux harbor right after the invasion to allow supplies to be brought into [...]

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Armchair Travel: Missing The Bus

Armchair Travel

My mother used to say to me “When they handed out brains, you thought they said trains, and you missed yours!”  While I might debate that point, there is no doubt that the first time around I missed the Bus2Antarctica.

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