Tag: travel
member name: Michael M.
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August 07, 2005 10:49 PM EDT --
Mind the Gap.
Very seldom does anybody give me instructions that are that useful and polite. It is almost more of a request, really. Please, please take care not to slip into the deadly void between . . .
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January 18, 2006 01:57 AM EST --
For those of you fortunate enough to have missed them, please see my two former articles on this subject.
So, we come to it at last. My votes for the worst food I have ever tasted in my life. . . .
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January 17, 2006 01:14 AM EST --
As a meat eater, a traveler, an Irish-American and a Republican, I have had my share of very bad meals before. I have had things put on plates in front of me that made me want to weep. I have . . .
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September 10, 2005 10:47 PM EDT --
My notebook firmly in pocket, and a healthy resolve not to eat anything meaty that day, I proceed to the breakfast room and evaluate my options. The cost of living in Iceland is too high to hold up my . . .
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September 10, 2005 11:34 PM EDT --
There should be a road sign, standard throughout the known universe, that has a gigantic red 'X' on it, with a series of 'Zzzzzzz's' underneath it. The meaning, of course, would be, . . .
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October 17, 2005 07:21 AM EDT --
There is something deeply encoded in the spirit of travel that has turned the word "tourist" into a very bad word, and I know . . .
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January 17, 2006 11:44 PM EST --
This article is part 2 in a series of 3. For the first article, please click here.
Ok, so I was originally going to do spots #5-#1 in this article, but after considering things further, I feel that . . .
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February 26, 2006 08:18 PM EST --
Here's what happens when you place an order at a restaurant in Chile. The waiter takes your order and goes and falls into a glacier and dies. His body is then found thousands of years later, . . .
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February 27, 2007 11:52 PM EST --
Ok, so when I said I would post every week I did not think anybody would actually much care, let alone hold me to it. But in the last two days I have been poked, prodded and left for dead by would-be readers. . . .
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September 10, 2005 10:42 PM EDT --
I wrote this article for "Non Credo", the official newsletter of the World Macrobiotic Organization. Unfortunately, it is published only when the Flying Dutchman appears at sea, so in the mean . . .
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April 22, 2006 06:32 PM EDT --
I apologize for the lag in posting, but the damned real world interfered with otherwise joyous Gathering.
One of the recurring themes in modern times is that of the loveable loser. He is the non-hero . . .
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September 10, 2005 11:26 PM EDT --
To a meat-eater like me, braised puffin in cream sauce is practically a vegetable. To say that the dish does not look appetizing is to mislead - it doesn't even look like food. It looks like a puffin, . . .
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August 12, 2005 08:46 PM EDT --
I flew, once, to Iceland, and this was a perfectly miserable idea. I might have done better to swim for it. An airplane going from Boston to Iceland follows much the same pattern as a runaway dog walking . . .
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March 22, 2006 10:19 PM EST --
Yes, this is supposed to be the last article in this series, but it is so long it became more than one post.
So sue me.
Let me start by saying that there was no worse fate for a pre-Columbian civilization . . .
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January 22, 2006 10:28 PM EST --
I can't think of a worse punishment for heinous criminals than forcing them to ride a camel drunk. This may even be too cruel, for few things could be more impossible than riding a . . .
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January 16, 2006 11:52 PM EST --
I enjoy cake thoroughly, but sometimes I feel it has played too significant a role in my life thus far.
Cake is neither expensive nor inexpensive – it would break few people to buy a cake, . . .
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