Monthly Archives: February 2014

After a few days in Stockholm it was time for our real adventure, a flight up above the Arctic Circle and three days basking in the frigid gloominess that is Lapland. To start our Laplandish quest we were scheduled to … Continue reading →

The secret to a good marriage, besides diamonds*, is the ability for the participants to trade favors, goods or services, or as the Romans put it, doing that quid pro quo thang. One can exchange, for instance, scrubbing down the … Continue reading →

Mad props to anyone who figured out the title came from Scrooged, one of my all time favorite holiday movies. Right up there with A Christmas Story, or as we like to refer to it, The Kid, You’ll Shoot Your … Continue reading →

We have returned full circle, back to Los Angeles and America and apple pie, as well as excellent fish tacos. Hmmm, fish tacos…. Before bestriding the globe, hurtling through the stratosphere back to the City of Angels, we stopped off … Continue reading →

So we finally arrived at the one place I actually had planned on going in SE Asia, Angkor Wat. I wrote and erased a whole bunch of words about Angkor Wat, and none of them did the place justice. So … Continue reading →