“I have an idea. Let’s go skiing this weekend. Out west.” Rachel started Monday night’s dinner with an intriguing topic. It was her birthday, so I couldn’t push back on what I thought was a ludicrous idea. Sure I wanted to go skiing this weekend, and sure I didn’t want to ski in New England, […]

Usually if a club sandwich is this bad, they don’t serve it. But in Mauritius, they plate it with pride. There was only one restaurant at the departure gates in the newly renovated Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport. After a 30 minute wait while they verified our paper tickets (the first paper tickets for a […]

We spent the weekend in Palm Beach County, Florida, where the highway speed limit matches the average age: 70. West Palm, to Palm Beach, to Palm Beach Gardens…. Everywhere looked the same, but I wasn’t complaining… February in Boston is quite cold, and a quick 3 hour trip down south was the exact remedy I […]

I was off to the airport to pick up Mike from Terminal 2 in Beijing. His first time in Asia, there was little faith I had in him successfully making it from the airport to his hotel. Nothing to do with him, it’s just Beijing is probably the only capital city in the world where […]