Hotels
Days Inn, North Chicago: Awoken by the Sound of Freight Trains
The Days Inn by Wyndham Great Lakes in North Chicago is neither here nor there as a hotel — clean, small lobby that is not cozy, rooms are sparse; I had a room with a […]
Year: 2018
Asia
Great Wall of China
My second trip to China found me in Beijing, not nearly as scary and inspiring a city as Shanghai, which had me thinking I was visiting the Death Star in Star Wars – Beijing was […]
Americas
Seattle, Washington
I flew out to Seattle for a long-time, good friend’s wedding the weekend after 4th of July. The wife and kids stayed home due to schedules, so it was a solo trip. Credit card points […]
Hotels
Hotel Review: Roy Street Commons — Seattle, Washington
I was traveling to Seattle, Washington for the weekend to attend a good friend’s wedding [click here for review of Seattle]. Most of those traveling in for the wedding were staying at the Downtown Athletic […]
Asia
Bangkok — Rising Jewel of Southeast Asia
Bangkok is one of the jewels of rising Southeast Asia; a burgeoning major world city that already boasts over 8 million people with maybe 15 million estimated in the metropolitan area, if you count uncounted […]
Americas
St. Louis — Bombed Out
St. Louis is bombed out. All the jobs went over seas, and as the top 1 millionth of 1 percent get richer and richer, the rest of the wealth and jobs gets spread globally, leaving […]
Asia
Shanghai — First City of People’s Republic of China
I landed in Shanghai at 6pm at night, and took a bus from the airport to the center of the city — a one hour ride. The People’s Republic of China — a foreign place […]
Europe
Malvern Hills, England
Traveling southwest of Birmingham in the UK by car gets you into the English countryside. As an American, this is the English countryside that you know from outdoor scenes of the Avengers TV series from […]
Americas
San Antonio, Texas And the Alamo… (and Austin)
There is crime in San Antonio. Lots of petty crime. Minor muggings maybe. And yet it is considered one of the safest cities in the US. A world safer than Laredo — 2 hours’ drive […]