Rome is filled with dumpy hostels and dive hotels – here are some of the best and a few of the worst.
Syncopated Family Travel – Red Lodge Montana, GPS Disasters, and Never Turning Back
“Maybe we should turn back,” suggests my wife, “see if there is a hotel or something somewhere else.” However, I’m too tired to admit defeat.
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hariri – An Honest Review
I just finished reading Sapiens by Yuval Noah Hariri. In my life, I’ve read many thousands of books. This is the one I wish everyone would read. Seriously. It had a few issues – but ultimately – at this moment in time, if someone were to ask me “What one book do you recommend that…
Memory and Travel – Reflections on Bergamo and kindness to strangers
Travel and memory don’t always work together.
Syncopated Family Travel – Mt. Rushmore, Sandwich Artists, and Injun Killers
We bypass the lot and hang out of the car window, wildly clicking the shutter gangsta style as we do a drive by shooting of the four presidents.
Travel Writing – A Dangerous Business
Travel writing is a dangerous business. No doubt about it. Most of all, it’s dangerous for your bank account! Of course, that’s just writing in general. The travel part…
Syncopated Family Travel: Wall Drug and the Dakota Badlands Food Poisoning
I’ll spare the details about what happens next, but it involves me defiling a national treasure. If there is a hell, I’m sure this will not bode well for me in the end.
Syncopated Family Travel: Channeling Laura Ingalls Wilder
“I can’t have another DUI,” she protests as she chomps down her beer-battered olives and slithers off of her bar stool.
La Casa Verde: A Great Place for (Honest) Information in Baños Ecuador
In Baños, the internet isn’t a main mode of communication. The best maps are hand drawn and photocopied with scrawling notes. Business transactions can be low tech. People buy, sell, and rent through flyers in windows.
Shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab – An Honest Review
As a geek, a sci-fi lover, a futurist, a technology lover, a person with a fascination for humans and what makes us tick, and an investor – I am constantly on the lookout for what the next big thing, the next big disruption, or the next human-culture shattering event may be – so reading Shaping…