Hi y’alls, and Happy New Year! Yeah… I’m fashionably late for 2014. I was all excited to regale you with One Thousand and One Nights-style tales from Morocco, but my anal-retentiveness refused to let me post anything for 2014 without formally wrapping up last year’s adventures. Mine is a militant and unforgiving super-ego. So I hit […]
My favorite ways to explore a new place are (1) to eat my way through it, and (2) to wander its streets in a rambling and intimate city tour… usually in search of more food. Day #11,532: When I lived in Manhattan, Stumptown Coffee Roasters had taken over the city, and New Yorkers were rapidly […]
I rarely explore new cities alone. Not because I’m afraid or because I dislike being alone- frankly (shamefully perhaps), I find myself bloody entertaining- but because I don’t take pains to make it happen. Travel somehow ends up being a group sport. When I booked my flight into Portland a day ahead of Mr. M […]