What can you eat anywhere? When you’re traveling there are many questions that continually plague a person in a new country. Where to stay, what the currency conversion is, whether to bow, kiss, or shake hands when introduced. But there is nothing as universal as food. Business or pleasure, short trip or long, seeing family or [...]
In a recent article in the New York Times Frugal Traveler blogger Seth Kugel offered the advice that “Galleries are frugal travelers’ museums: not only are they nearly always free and nearly never musty, but they also provide insight into the local arts scene that would otherwise require a lot of trendy-cafe eavesdropping.” When I [...]
It’s easy to find something to do in downtown Chicago. In the summer cultural events, compete with world class museums and historic sites to attract the attention of out of town visitors. But as my grandmother often said, “all the world can’t be London and Paris.” Travelers often find themselves a little farther of the [...]
On the high dry Jalisco lands two hours outside of Guadalajara, there is a little town called Tequila. Not the drink, but the drink’s hometown. This tiny village is about a third the population of Evanston, on rolling hills. It’s a half mile above sea level and only a short distance from the Pacific. It [...]
The City Museum of St Louis is not a museum in the traditional sense of the word and it has almost nothing to do with cities in general or St. Louis in specific. What it is, is a huge junkyard play-house. When you first enter it, the building looks like the home of an eccentric [...]
Over the past month, since beginning work as a reporter for Extra Newspaper I have written a number of travel articles. These articles are in a section called Vámonos (“Let’s go” in English) and I am currently the only writer for that section. So far, I have written an article every week for the last [...]
Dear Reader,
There is no more tiresome blog post than the apology for a long layoff so I will be brief. Been a long time, but I loved this content and the people who followed this website too much to kill it in the year since I last wrote or recorded anything for it.
Josh Locks is the coach of the boys sophmore baseball team and a teacher at Whitney Young High school. In the wake of Chicago Public Schools considering cutting all Sophmore sports for boys and girl across the city I caught up with Josh to get his take on the situation and ask what could be [...]
I was out of work a long time. Not totally out of work, I always had a little work but I was most of the way out of work most of the time. This makes me either a good person to talk to about finding a job or a horrible one. If I am a [...]
I have started accomplishing the goals on my list, but I am going about it in all wrong order. Last week, I got a job (with these fine people). An honest to goodness full time non-freelance job. I got the job by working for free (with these fine people) but that is tomorrow’s post. This [...]
