If anyone wants to know my official stance on travel writing (as well as where to get all dreamy with your sweetheart in Cancun), here’s a little interview I did with a congenial travel writer named Norm Goldman to promote my new book, Cancun & Cozumel Directions. As an incentive to read, there’s a small [...]
Last night, from off in the hallway, Peter says, “Hmm, that duck isn’t making me feel so good.†A couple of hours earlier we’d had a dinner of leftover pad thai, which we’d made the night before, and some leftover duck salad from a restaurant, from Friday night. Both things we’d eaten before, to no [...]
For now, there are only three, but they represent the less tourist-friendly, seamier side of north-central New Mexico quite well. First, we have a scene that could have been taken straight from my middle-school years (in NM, it’s mid school, not junior high, for some reason). I was never one of the bad kids who [...]
This is a little petty, but what are blogs for if not petty venting? One day in Albuquerque, I encountered several shockingly inhospitable bed-and-breakfast owners, and it put me in a very bad mood. The worst of the lot was Adobe Garden B&B in Los Ranchos. Now this looks like a nice enough place–it’s recommended [...]