**This is part of My Travel Hats’ Restaurant Week series of select restaurants from around the world**
Go West, young man! We switch over to my former home, where I’ve left my heart. No, not San Francisco, but Santa Monica. Here we visit one of Southern California’s most exquisite restaurants, Joe’s Restaurant, where I spent many [...]
***This week, My Travel Hats is having its own Restaurant Week, in which I’ll feature a not-to-miss, must-dine eatery in select cities.***
Across the Charles River of Boston, there lies a nice little community of Cambridge, where some of the smartest scholars in the country come to teach and do research (Harvard and MIT). How do they feed their [...]
If you’re ever feeling like your life in the United States is fairly dull and uneventful, and you wish yourself a more exotic version somewhere else in the world (and Baltimore isn’t even exciting and dangerous enough), here’s a suggestion.
Visit the U.S. State Department Consular Information Program page, which is filled with interesting summaries and tidbits about [...]
We headed back to Chicago to visit Jon’s family for the Jewish holidays. Jon’s family lives in the great suburbs as featured in John Hughes’ movies, and sure, the suburbs of America are not necessarily as exciting as the cities, but, as I will be reporting, it doesn’t matter.
In fact, as a traveler, I suddenly developed [...]
I decided it was time to start posting some more random thoughts about travel in general, since that’s what most blogs are anyway – uninvited streams of consciousness by the writer for all those who care. Now since I love autumn, I have multiple plans in my head to enjoy it, but I’m fast running [...]
While scanning the Internet I came across TSA’s tips to “SimpliFLY” your travel. Because, apparently, what used to be just a routine procedure involving sending your carry-on luggage (more than two!) and walking through the X-ray has become so complicated that TSA has to actually create an entire site with a clever headline to explain how [...]
Mother Nature knew: as soon as September hit, the humidity dissipated and the suddenly temperatures dropped, and that familiar back-to-school atmosphere is in the air. It’s a mix of chimney smoke and leaves, brown bag lunches and school bus exhaust, making me want to go out and buy new school supplies. I missed this smell [...]
It’s that time of year again – time to put away the white shoes and pants, longer work weeks and shorter daylight hours, fewer trips to the beach and hence, fewer hours spent sitting in traffic. Except this one last weekend, where millions of Americans will sit around in parking lots made out of highways, cursing [...]
