We are in Las Vegas to celebrate Lillian’s graduation and we went to dinner at Fleur, Hubert Keller’s small plate restaurant at the Mandalay Bay. Hubert came over the table to congratulate...Read More
I’ve been to the Sundial Bridge in Redding CA three times. This was the first time it was sunny enough to get a good picture. Here is one of my other attempts. This is the one I took last ...Read More
I went to the CECUT museum in Tijuana on Friday to work on the map exhibit. There is good news on that front. It looks like we will be having the Changing Boundaries Exhibit there for three months...Read More
I went to Vegas to visit Lillian and we had a excellent time. We took a short hike to see the new bridge at Hoover Dam and a long hike in Ice Box Canyon at Red Rocks NCA. Red Rocks from Ice Box Cany...Read More
“I think you should only read those books which bite and sting you.” Franz Kafka I read a lot of books in 2010 and some of them were excellent. Following are the few that I found the mos...Read More
When you go to Santa Fe and you should. Try to stay at the Inn of the Governors. They have beautiful flower baskets. and very nice rooms The Inn of the Governors is only a block or two from the Plaz...Read More
I’m reading Aftershock the very good new book by Philippe Legrain. It address the question of what will happen next now that the immediate crisis caused by the housing bubble in the US and the U...Read More
When we were in Carmel at the end of our Paso Robles trip we serendipitously ran into the McDaniels our neighbors from 25 years ago. We had dinner the next night and caught up on what our children ...Read More
When you go to Paso Robles, CA, and you should, have dinner at Il Cortile Ristorante and if they are serving it try the Black Truffle Risotto. Oh my. Excellent service, an excellent and inexpensiv...Read More
This morning while we were walking in Pasadena we found this piece of public art across from the Paseo Pasadena. It it a very beautiful bronze mountain goat on a limestone fountain pedestal. The l...Read More