Five dollar… Five dollar… Five dollar foot longs I’m sorry to put that song in your head. And not every Subway will play the jingle as you order your sub. Take, for instance, a 2 AM sudden hunger attack as we were walking out of the Venetian in Las Vegas. We found Subway and...
Once a year, 7/11 gives America a break -- and more sugar than a kid should have during a decade. It's free slurpee day today. Go out, get two.
Another warning during this July 4th weekend from the great state of Texas to travelers thinking of spending the holiday weekend in a border city. Don’t do it. This week’s hot spot is Nuevo Laredo, Mexico, just across the border from Laredo, Texas. Texas officials are claiming that the Zetas, a drug cartel based...
The right to have wedding memories created in the mist of Niagara Falls, atop the Empire State Building or in the Hampton’s will now be legally shared by gay and straight people alike. Friday, just before midnight, New York became the sixth state to recognize same sex marriage. Good for them. Not only has...
OK, I get it. Don’t leave any crumbs in the campground, lest you become an item on the evening news. And as one who has had a campground bear encounter thanks to the a-holes next to us in Lake Tahoe a number of years ago (two beasts brushed our tent at 3 a.m. On...
Cody, Wyo. – You know you’ve reached the pinnacle of desperation when you are excited – no, ecstatic – to find a Walmart. No wonder Cody is the metropolis that it is; what with the only WM for hundreds of miles in this state. And why on Earth were we itchin’ to go to...
You know you’ve found Santa Cruz’s Steamer Lane when you see a mattress and a surfboard packed in the back of a old-school VW van. Home to all things surf, this internationally known spot is the mecca for anyone with a wetsuit and a need to ride some tasty waves in some seriously cold...
There’s a block in Detroit that’s not like any other block in Detroit. It’s the same, but it’s different. A few houses are abandoned, a few lots cleared, a couple of homes occupied. It’s the Detroit story. Right along the street bearing the same name is the Heidelberg Project. A piece of living art...
Are you still hot? Yes, this past week held a few really hot days. Wednesday, I got in my car and the temperature gauge held at 99° for the entire drive home from work. Ugh. Needless to say, I’m happy Willis Carrier was busy tinkering away in 1902. If the AC can’t keep you...
You know your country’s in dietary straits when the instructional food pyramid suddenly disappears like a Copperfield sarcophagus and—poof!—magically morphs into a plate. It’s the USDA’s answer to the failed Egyptian triangle stuffed with loin chops and yogurt, originally meant to instruct the general public on what to eat and how much each day,...
