This time last year my Belgian host family celebrated an American Thanksgiving by going to bed at 9pm so that we could be out the door by 3:30am for Black Friday shopping. After that experience I grumbled to myself that my favorite holiday had become too commercialized and that perhaps real traditions were going the way of dinosaurs. Fast forward …
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Vegas And Hoover Dam
We’re a few weeks shy of Christmas and that means two things here in southern Cal: (1) really awesome sunny weather while people in other parts of the country are digging themselves through snow and rain and (2) winter sales. This time last year I was trekking from Morocco through Spain so had missed out on a lot of the …
Black Friday
 Did you survive turkey day and Black Friday? I ate then re-ate the crab pasta (miến xà o cua), which I have to say was pretty tasty…I’ll youtube the cooking instructions soon:  Tbe apple pie was also yummy enough for seconds and thirds:  There wasn’t really anything I needed this year that required getting up at 3am for …
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Blue Friday
In honor of Black Friday, I thought I’d blog about fashion instead of travel today. But since early this morning I have seen nothing but lousy news on cnn and the internet. First the stampede and subsequent death of an employee at Wal-Mart then some shootings at a Toys-R-Us. This is not Black Friday but Blue Friday. This economic crunch …