Travel Advice: I Knows What I Knows

Sometimes the most valuable advice you can follow is your own. How many times have you given sound instructions to others, but not followed it yourself. My resolution after this trip is to pay more attention to my own advice. Here’s what I learned about travel, not necessarily by doing but by not doing and wishing I had: 1) If you are traveling through time zones – no matter how...

Fever-Induced Ramblings. And Fava Beans.

Still suffering from what must be the worst flu ever — headache, earache, sore throat, fever and chills — so this post will be short and nonsensical. Then padded out with lots of pictures. I’m basing my planting schedule on the progress of the Fava Beans I’ve planted in my three raised beds. My plan was to harvest some and plow some under as green fertilizer...

Earth Hour, Sonoma Style

You’ve heard that today is Earth Hour. All across the world, from Antarctica to Egypt, cities and people committed to turning off their lights for one hour starting at 8:30PM their time. I watched on the Internet as Big Ben dimmed. But things are very different in the big city. All those people with flashlights and battery powered lanterns and candles actually light up a...

Buy Organic and Make an Arab Smile

Boy, that sounds like something a Republican would say. But I’m getting madder and madder at the retailers who are hopping on the organic bandwagon without a true social conscience. (Whole Foods, I’m talking to you.) Then there are the Food Nazis who are all holier-than-thou about buying organic, but are missing the big picture. Both these groups are what put a big smile...

Rediscovering The Johnny Cash Show

Let me first tell you something that may surprise long-time readers. I did not grow up in a Country music loving family. My parents’ extensive record collection was filled mostly with Classical records, soundtracks from the Broadway musicals they saw every chance they got and the obligatory Herb Alpert and Martin Denny exotica that was the standard soundtrack for cocktail...

Still Thinking Roadtrips

My Skywatch post. See more skies from around the world at the Skywatch site: http://skyley.blogspot.com/ Once I get behind the wheel of Old Paint, it seems it’s hard for me to take my foot off the gas. So I’m already thinking about what my next roadtrip will be. Several things are going to govern the choice of my next destination: 1) The economy. After the blow-out at the...