Travel-related posts before they get moved to travel.lonelocust.com
I’m quite looking forward to our rapidly approaching trip to Taiwan to visit my wife’s parents, but there’s just one area that really bothers me… but things are looking up this time.
That area? The Toilet Paper dilemma.
The details may not be for everyone. Only read on if you dare…
The grey weather continued again today and by the time we’d eaten, cleaned up and gotten packed, it was nearly lunchtime. We had to check out and, not wanting to leave computers and cameras alone in the car, we decided to have lunch and return home. We made another go at Kendall’s Famous Burgers & … Read more
It’s been unseasonably hot in Phoenix the last few weeks, with temperatures well into the 90s. Both Michelle and Irene are on spring break this week, so we decided to head to the cooler country for a few days. With this vacation planned for several weeks, today we headed to Prescott.
Pity that the storms rolled into Arizona last night. This morning it was already pouring and while it looked like it was going to clear up by the time we were leaving town, apparently it did not.
When we arrived in Prescott we headed for Golden Corral, a buffet restaurant Irene really likes. They were recovering from a power failure and apparently had no croutons nor fried foods because of it. (Their sign actually said “no bread, no soups and no fried foods†– Why else would one go to Golden Corral?)
Immediately upon check-in at the hotel, I got called from work. The storm was pounding Phoenix and our offices lost all power for hours.
We started walking around town, but were soon turned back by rain, and so we were stuck in the hotel for the rest of the day.
Photos follow:
Foo(d) Bar Blog => Din Tai Fung There’s a funny thing about doing food and restaurant reviews. Even though I know fully well that each person has their own taste and that you can’t hope to agree with anyone except perhaps yourself, there’s a certain weird self-affirmation when you run across someone who records a … Read more
The Taiwan Kid => Turkey-Flavored Doritos Somewhere Dr. Evil has a lab where they cook up these products: I’ll give you something to Ho!, Ho!, Ho! about–how about Doritos Roasted Turkey flavored chips? And the chips are even shaped like Christmas trees! It would be easy to think that this is some sort of art … Read more
Vanderbilt Forums => Short stroll in a Chinese national park I’m always fascinated by the various notions of recreation in national parks around the world. While I’m not sure exactly where this series of pictures is, it looks a lot like the Three Gorges. You have to see all these pictures to believe this is … Read more
New Macs come with a terribly amusing program, Comic Life, which is really fun. For a bit of fun, I put together a comic version of our recent trip to San Diego.
I actually started writing my (then journal, now) blog entries back in 1998 because I wanted to remember my travels. This is what happens when that goes wrong.
Our plan was for this to be our last day in California, but we were not in any hurry to get out of town, and we had contingency plans to stay one more night if we so chose.
Seriously, what it is about some cities that some people get all misty-eyed and pee-in-their-pants excited about?