David Schrag examines his navel and the world around it
I finally finished compiling the photos from our trip to Zion, Bryce Canyon, and Grand Canyon National Parks in June. Here it is – a 12+ minute show. (I’ve embedded it here for convenience, but it looks like the resolution is better, especially in full-screen mode, if you go directly to the Vimeo site. Click [...]
We’re planning a trip to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon next year. We’ll be renting a car in Las Vegas and seeing Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks on our way. I wanted to get a sense of drive times between Bryce Canyon and the Grand Canyon Lodge at the North Rim. I [...]
If you’ve driven from New York to Boston via I-91, I-84, and I-90 on high-traffic days, you know that the delays getting onto I-90 (the Mass Pike) can be deadly. Last night, I found a pretty good work-around. Get off I-84 at exit 73 and get onto SR-190. Turn right onto SR-171, which becomes SR-197 [...]
I just wrapped up a swing around the south of Ireland. We flew from Boston to Dublin and then back to Boston from Shannon. We stayed two nights in Dublin, two nights in Kinsale, one night in Camp (outside Tralee), and two nights in Ennis. Areas visited along the way included Kilkenny, Cashel, the Ring [...]
Easy on the air conditioning. It’s friggin’ freezin’ in here!
Our summer vacation is memorialized thusly: St. Croix is a lot larger than I thought it would be. Although perhaps it only seems bigger than it really is because of the total lack of anything we would call a highway. If you’re planning to play golf on your vacation, try not to break your ribs [...]
I knew when I planned a Memorial Day weekend trip to New Orleans for a small business information technology conference that I would still be recovering from my knee surgery earlier in the month. So I splurged and cashed in a boatload of frequent flier miles to get an aisle seat in first class on [...]