The thing about the internet is that you don’t really need to schedule time on your trip to hit up The Magnificent Mile when you’re in Chicago anymore. We have Crate & Barrel in our suburbs and UPS at our doorstep. I’m remiss that we didn’t hit up Wishbone for breakfast because if America runs [...]

Drove over to the other side of town for dinner with friends from way back (all the way to kindergarten.) Had a great time, but needed  to cut  the evening short as I had a deadline looming. Other highlight? The rain abated.

My friend Kevin swept through town after he visited his family up north for the holidays. Here he is taking a picture of his food with a mobile phone. When folks come in town, I visit favorite vistas and haunts, but I never back anything up with historical facts or details. I need to work on that. File under foods [...]

Popped into Indianapolis for the night. One of the many places just a hop skip and a jump from Southwest Ohio. Their downtown over there in the capital of Indiana? It’s refreshing in how well it’s working. I’m sure holiday traffic added to the crowded mall in the center of the city, and bustling convention [...]

Ronald McDonald offering a standard Thai greeting called the wai. I grew to really appreciate this gesture that can mean hello, goodbye, apologies and thank you. It has an elegance of motion and intent. By the end of the trip I was trying my best to incorporate this motion in appropriate transactions. Speaking of adventure, [...]