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It has been a few days since I arrived back in Da Nang and I must say it is a much different place than I left some four months ago. I was fortunate back in January and...
We had a very easy flight to Mexico and immigration and boarder control in the tourist region of the Yucatan and the ease of which it operates is academic. Our return...
After a couple of intense days of exploration and adventure it was time to slow things down. We were, after all, in paradise and it seemed a waste to rush it all away....
After falling asleep very early the night before, I awoke around 5:45 to a quite morning. The sun rises at closer to 7 and I wanted to catch at least one. The sun rises...
Mexico has such a potent presence in my psyche. She was the first place I saw a structure thousands of years old, the first place I lost myself in a world completely...
I awoke on this our second morning and I knew this was the day. Our entire trip began with one simple request many months ago. I asked Maggie sometime last year what she...
I awoke just before dawn and stepped outside to see our small Colonia street begin to wake up. Off the terrace, I could see a woman sweeping the sidewalk in front of her...
Many years ago, when I was the Chef at Sala in the Virginia Highlands neighborhood of Atlanta, I had a bartender who worked for me named Rafael Barragán. We called him...
I landed in San Diego Friday night at 11:30, and it's been a while since I posted much content, so I was hoping a trip to Southern California would quickly get me back...
It was 5:30 in the morning when my alarm clock belted out its revelry to wake and rise on this chilly early spring morning of March 28th, 2019. I arose at this earliest...
It had been a long day at the Marble Mountains, and after a relaxing cup of coffee on the Han River, it was time to eat. We headed north up the avenue known as Đường...
When the elevator door opened, the sight, I must say, was pretty impressive. I don’t know if it was the strange newness of everything to me. But I had a sense of awe...
