Category Archives: travel
Here’s to a Great Summer of Biking Ahead
Can you feel it? Can you feel the renaissance happening? Having already knocked out the 5-Boro Bike Tour(click here for one man’s account), I am seriously excited about riding around the city this year. I might even take in a Critical Mass event. I sincerely hope we can avoid any major accidents here in Brooklyn [...]
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Lonely Planet TV
Need a break? Like to travel? Take a trip with fellow Lonely Planet independent travelers.
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Underwater Restaurant
Iitha is not quite the place where James Bond might have found his man (seats just 14 people at a time), but it does qualify as interesting.
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Basejumping into Huge Underground Cave
Majlis Al-Jinn cave in Oman
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Local Flavor
A new site that was just brought to my attention via the ueber-hip BoingBoing is Outside.in . The site adds some intelligence to searching for local information by scouring blogs and other information sources that are tagged or otherwise identified as associated with the location you are querying. Nice to see so much relevant information [...]
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Ay Chihuahua! Mi Estomago!
Lupe and I have arrived safely in Guadalajara Wednesday afternoon, after a most enjoyable 4 days in New Braunfels, Texas. We have consumed much brisket (especially at one roadside stop that the proprietor insisted on calling "Knucklehead’s"), and many tacos. Lupe’s brother, Pat, and his family have been here for about four months. By my [...]
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5 Minutes in Brooklyn: DiFara’s Pizza