In case you had any doubt that flying on a commercial airline has lost all its olden day glamour, I invite you to hop on any US airline for an economy class flight across the Pacific. I thought I was mentally prepared for the discomfort of the 20+ hour trip duration (including a 3 hour layover at [...]
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30 Oct
Are We Coming or Going? (China Trip – Introduction)
It was my better half’s first trip to China. Actually, his first visit to Asia.
“I want to see as much as possible. I know you can’t see everything in two weeks, but I want to see a lot.” He was, after all, going on one of those “trips of a lifetime.”
Though I’d been there before, I [...]
9 Oct
Summer Wedding Weekends: Brunch at the Inn at Dos Brisas
As I mentioned before, I try to take opportunity of Sunday brunch to do some chowhounding after all the catered meals at out-of-town weddings. I thought my options for a wedding in Brenham, Texas would be slim (biscuits and sausage gravy or a sausage biscuit?) until I remembered a thread on DallasFood.org about the only 2008 Mobil five-star restaurant in [...]
30 Jul
Summer Wedding Weekends: Brunch at Shade in Houston
I am solidly in the middle of that age range where I spend every other summer weekend at weddings. And although they’re always a blast, weddings involve extensive, sometimes multi-meal, catering, and therefore equate to travelling without much chowhounding. That is until the day after the celebration, when Sunday brunch provides an opportunity for some independent culinary exploration.
First, off [...]
1 Jul
Birthday Weekend in San Francisco – Day 3
We started our last day in San Francisco with a brisk morning walk along the Embarcadero, starting from the grand San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
and working our way through Rincon Park to arrive at our destination, the Ferry Building.
The Ferry Building, in addition to being a transportation link in the Bay Area mass transit system, is [...]
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