by admin | Aug 2, 2014 | Blogging, Books, Restaurants, Travel, Uncategorized, Writing
When I first started this blog, one of the nagging questions in my mind was, “Is anybody reading this?” It is a natural enough question for almost anyone. For someone who has published books and reports and hundreds of articles in various periodicals, all with...
by admin | Jul 28, 2014 | Disaster, Environment, Public safety, Restaurants, Travel
At first, it looks like something straight out of the Old West, and perhaps it is. The Gold Hill Inn is now 52 years old, which plants its origins in the 1960s, but the building was originally the dining hall for the adjacent but now closed Bluebird Lodge, built in...
by admin | Jun 16, 2014 | Immigration, Travel
“How old do you think I am?” the cab driver asked. It was an odd question, but the conversation with my driver from Reagan National Airport to my hotel on 10th St. NW in Washington, D.C., had already caught me by surprise with his first comment before we had ever...
by admin | Mar 31, 2014 | History, Restaurants, Travel
In the past two installments about Hawaii, I focused on our first two days there, one for me on Kaua’i, the second with my wife and grandson in Honolulu. This third installment will round out the story. First, the catamaran trip: Since all work and no fun in Hawaii...
by admin | Mar 19, 2014 | Activism, Disaster, Travel
Early in 2008, after I learned that I would be offered a three-week visiting fellowship by the Centre for Advanced Engineering in New Zealand (CAENZ), colleagues and friends had a tendency to ask why that country was so interested in my expertise in planning for...
by admin | Aug 9, 2013 | Chicago, Travel, Urban Planning
In my last blog post, I extolled some of the virtues of staying put, at least for a vacation, as opposed to roaming the world, a charge to which I plead guilty on a regular basis, though more in connection with work than pleasure. That was a teaser to my real goal of...
