With everything that’s been on my plate, it’s taken forever to write up the final notes from my October trip to Colonial Mexico. For our last stop on our four-day tour through central Mexico...

This week has really pushed the boundaries for this former newspaper type – in a good way! First, I appeared on This Week in Travel podcast with Gary Arndt of Everything-Everywhere, Jen Leo of the LA Times Travel blog and Chris Christensen of the...

As a mainstream media journalist, I had to put aside some of my passions – or at least put them on the downlow. That’s because newspapers want their reporters and editors act as recorders and interpreters, not advocates. That’s not necessarily a bad...

                          The events of last week have necessitated some emergency purchases. I need a laptop and a camera, hopefully one that records video – and stat. Because, as one friend put it, a blogger without a...

  Partying in a Jersey Shore beach house is a rite of passage for many in New York and the mid-Atlantic region. But the folks at the Jersey Convention and Tourism Board are not pleased with how the new MTV reality show, Jersey Shore, which debuted...