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travel

the seven signs that my platteville WI hotel is maybe a little ghetto

July 23, 2011

1. The mound view of the Mound View Inn has been obscured by a Wal Mart. 2. Entry to the room is gained via metal key. Not even a big, blocky, old-school-but-still-of-this-generation-albeit-pre-plastic-swipey hotel key, but a regular old toothy key, a just-like-my-house-key key. 3. The dead bolt can’t be turned from the outside. Only just [...]

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Washington Beaches Are State Highways

November 12, 2009

It’s true. You can drive for miles on the beach in Washington, go from town to town to town, as far as the sand will let you. There are rules however. This taken from the Long Beach Peninsula Visitor’s Bureau website: “All drivers and vehicles must be licensed and insured just as on any other [...]

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Blue Lobster

November 9, 2009

I found a very blue lobster claw on the beach in Maine. Pretty! Courtney looked it up and as I live and breathe there is such a thing that lives and breathes. One in two to four million lobsters is blue, depending on which source you consult. That got us purty excited. It’s a genetic [...]

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And Where Is My Queen / She’s As Gone As Can Be

November 8, 2009

This is how, I start another day in my kingdom. In a one-star hotel off I-90 I am supposed to be sleeping in Victor NY. There is a loud rhythmic banging above me and then it stops. The dogs are alert and then asleep. The bed is lopsided on the right. I sleep closest to [...]

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housed neatly somewheres on the decadence spectrum

November 6, 2009

Oh what a meal. 1st course: calf’s brains 2nd course: sweetbread now we shall repair to our Jaquish island manor.

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The Search For the Elusive Kai Kua aka (untranslatable Thai) aka Guay-Dtieow Kûa Gài aka Kway Teo aka Guay Tiew Kua of New England (and probably elsewhere) Abetted By a Visual Aid

November 4, 2009

Girlfriends, let’s dish: The missus and I stopped for lunch at Ithaca, NY’s Taste of Thai Express Monday. Not wanting yet one more slightly varied permutation of ye olde staple pad thai, I ordered a dish called kai kua. I didn’t invest much hope in my straying from a well-trod path, but one bite showed [...]

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yet more photos from st. croix

August 1, 2009

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Map of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands

July 30, 2009

The St. Croix rental car didn’t come with a GPS — none of them did — and for a moment we sat there stunned, trying to remember how people navigated strange islands without directions beamed down from above. How do we find the hotel? I asked the rental counter attendant. Maps, she said, and handed [...]

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