I arranged for a car to take us to Dulles Airport rather than drive and park ourselves. I especially didn’t want to have to deal with driving a car home after nearly 24 hours of flying back to Dulles. The car from Columbia Taxi Service (actually Columbia Limousine Service, as it turned out) showed up …
January 9: New Year’s Day, going to hell January 20: Waiting for solar battery and website audit February 3: Solar battery installed, website audit done February 6: 2023 Dining Summary February 7: Wondrium finds March 27: Birthday update January 9 It’s been a relatively quiet first week of 2024. Barb and I spent New Year’s …
A running tab of movies and series I’ve seen in theaters or at home, and a quick comment about them. I’ve succumbed to the idea of assigning a personal score for each film. My scale: 2023 Movies | 2022 Movies | 2021 Movies | 2020 Movies | 2019 Movies | 2018 Movies | 2017 Movies A Complete Unknown, Snowden, December 2024. …
Part 10 of our June 2009 trip to China with the Speizmans. Saturday, June 20 – Shanghai and Pudong For our final full day in China, Rick and I rose early and headed out to explore some of my old stomping grounds and other parts of Shanghai. The ladies slept in and indulged in the …
Part 9 of our June 2009 trip to China with the Speizmans. Thursday, June 18 – Arrival in Shanghai We reluctantly checked out of the Four Seasons Hong Kong and made our way back to the airport for our flight to Shanghai. This was my first time back in Shanghai since 1988 for one day …
I’m a low-level fan of Hoppin’ John and the tradition of having black eyed peas on New Year’s Day. I’ve tried various recipes over the years and never really landed on one I loved, but this year I stumbled into an easy version that tastes really good, inspired partly by a recent NY Times recipe …
Part 8 of our June 2009 trip to China with the Speizmans. Wednesday, June 17 – Bus to Stanley Market, Sunset at Four Seasons For old times’ sake, we took the #6 bus from the Star Ferry terminal across the island toward Stanley, passing our hold homes and haunts. This was a chance to show …
Part 7 of our June 2009 trip to China with the Speizmans. Sunday, June 14 – Xian to Hong Kong We split off from the Speizmans for the next few days. They headed toward the karst mountains and river valleys near Yangshuo and Guilin while Allie, Barb and I headed to Hong Kong. This was …
Part 6 of our June 2009 trip to China with the Speizmans. Saturday, June 13 – Xian The highlight and main purpose for visiting Xian was to see the Terracotta Army of Emperor Qin Shi Huang. I remembered being amazed by our first visit in 1988. I was eager to show Allie and the Speizmans …
Part 5 of our June 2009 trip to China with the Speizmans. Friday, June 12 – Beijing to Xian We got ourselves checked out of the Raffles and transported back to the fancy new Beijing airport. We had enough time to relax a little and explore the amenities. It beat any airport we could think …