Published March 9, 2010 at 7:00 am |
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I’m currently in Vancouver, Canada. Home of the 2010 Winter Olympics. It turns out that the hotel I’m staying at is quite far from the city, making a trip to downtown unlikely. Nonetheless, I was able to find an adventure today of Olympic proportions…
When mom heard I was off to Vancouver, she made one request; “buy me a pair of Olympic Red Mittens”.
Published February 12, 2010 at 7:00 am |
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When I was packing for my trip to Thailand I included a pair of Feelgoodz Flip Flops. They’re made from a good friend of mine, Kyle Berner. He’s CEO of Feelgoodz, a New Orleans based business. Of course on my trip to the Crescent City I had to stop by and see his operation in full swing.
After teaching English in Thailand for a year, he wanted to find a way to give back to a country that had given him so much. His idea…flip flops.
Published August 28, 2009 at 11:21 am |
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I had a wonderful time in Chicago. Sadly, my last memory of the city was a not a great one. I was flying Delta out of Chicago’s Midway Airport. Rough weather was hitting the Northeast causing a significant flight delay out of New York’s LaGuardia airport. That’s where my plane was coming from.
Instead of leaving at 18:55, we didn’t leave until 22:30. The plane ride was only 90 minutes to Atlanta, but Atlanta is one hour ahead of Chicago. We exited the terminal at 1:30 in the morning. There were no more flights leaving to Orlando at that hour. Instead of sleeping in the terminal, I got a hotel room for the night.
Published July 29, 2009 at 11:21 am |
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What does that mean? I couldn’t tell you either. I had to look it up. It means “Uncle Sam’s Shop” in Afrikaans. Oom Samie Se Winkel is located in the Stellenbosch region of South Africa; Wine Country. On a wine tour Brian and I took a few years back we stopped at this old timey country store for lunch and browsing.