I like writing travel guides. I like it a lot, even when I complain. But I think I like making the maps more. Maybe I wouldn’t like cartography as a full-time job, but as a break from all the damn writing and phone-number-checking, pulling out my ruler, white-out and colored pens and getting down to [...]
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Just added to the links list: Notes from the Slippery Slope, which we cognoscenti know better as The Friday Afternoon Update. Naomi has been making me laugh every week via my email inbox for, eesh, years now. She made the move to a blog format a little while ago, but because I still get the [...]
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As it happens, ABQ wasn’t so big-city after all. I was strolling around downtown (aka The District, according to the slick magazine/brochure the city puts out to promote its new urbanist efforts), and happened to spy an ancient-looking shoe store: a faded sign jutted out from the shopfront: “HALE” vertically, block letters, “shoes” horizontally in [...]
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So that night I was writing the last post, and it got really late…I very nearly screwed myself. I went out to the restaurant that’s in my guidebook that’s known for staying open late. But they were just closing. They sent me to a newer bar on the south side of town. I raced down [...]
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I'm Zora O'Neill. I travel and eat. I'm a:
*Guidebook author for Lonely Planet, Moon and Rough Guides
*Co-author of cookbook Forking Fantastic! Put the Party back in Dinner Party
*Expert on Amsterdam, Egypt, New Mexico and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.
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