Pretty soon everyone is going to be talking about our national parks; Ken Burns’ latest project is a six-parter called The National Parks: America’s Best Idea and will debut on PBS on September 27. We’ll be watching, for sure, but in the meantime we decided to get a jump on the chatter with our own [...]
Archive for July, 2009
Three-fer Friday: It Happened In A National Park
Posted in Uncategorized on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It Happened In A National Park
Posted in Outdoorsiness, Uncategorized, tagged Alaska, Big Bend, Glacier Bay, Idaho, Montana, National Parks, Texas, Wyoming, Yellowstone on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Pretty soon everyone is going to be talking about our national parks; Ken Burns’ latest project is a six-parter called The National Parks: America’s Best Idea and will debut on PBS on September 27. We’ll be watching, for sure, but in the meantime we decided to get a jump on the chatter with our own [...]
An All-American Meal for the Twenty-First Century
Posted in Tasting America, Uncategorized, tagged American cuisine, food, matzo, nachos, Tex-Mex, Texas on July 30, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com. My husband Tom’s from Chicago, I’m from New York City, we live in Texas and haven’t been to the supermarket this week. We’re running out of everything, including tortillas. So last night’s dinner turned into a metaphor–a little bit of this and a little bit of [...]
Giving the Snow Globe a Boot
Posted in American Style, Seeing America, State-by-State, tagged Bucking Horse Sale, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Kenny Chesney, Matt Villano, Miles City, Miles City Saddlery, Montana, NASCAR, Nocona, Roald Dahl on July 28, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Life in Miles City, Montana, revolves around horses. Head from I-90 into town and you’ll likely pass a cowboy running some errands by horse. On the near side of Main Street, east of the old train trestle, you can still spot some old businesses with hitching posts out front. The town’s annual and rollicking Bucking [...]
What a Monday Night Should Be
Posted in Tasting America, tagged Arizona, Cafe Zuzu, Chef Chuck Wiley, chef's table, Hotel Valley Ho, Scottsdale on July 27, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Monday nights on the road are strange beasts. With most locals eating dinner at home, working late, or watching TV to block out thoughts of all that week left ahead, restaurants and other usually-fun stuff feels blah, lifeless. I always feel most out of step with wherever I am on a Monday night. I don’t [...]
Three-fer Friday: I Want to Go, er, Live There
Posted in Uncategorized on July 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
With apologies to Tina Fey for, above, bastardizing her character’s now famous line, here, the hotels/B&Bs/other-places-with-beds-that-aren’t-our-homes that we would like to move into permanently. Jenna’s Picks Few hotels–if any–merge whimsy, history, and upscale delights like Boston’s Liberty Hotel, which is partially housed in a former jail. I would spend my Saturday mornings doing Yoga in [...]
I Want to Go, er, Live There
Posted in Listing America, State-by-State, tagged Alaska, bed and breakfast, Boston, California, Calistoga, Cameron, Colorado, Fairbanks, Graham, hotels, Logan, Massachusetts, Montana, Nashville, Ohio, resort, San Juan Mountains, Teasdale, Tennessee, Texas, Utah on July 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com. With apologies to Tina Fey for, above, bastardizing her character’s now famous line, here, the hotels/B&Bs/other-places-with-beds-that-aren’t-our-homes that we would like to move into permanently. Jenna’s Picks Few hotels–if any–merge whimsy, history, and upscale delights like Boston’s Liberty Hotel, which is partially housed in a former jail. [...]
The Great Scent Escape
Posted in State-by-State, tagged Alaska, Boston, Christopher Brosius, food, Highway 127 Sale, Maine, memory, perfume, scent, travel on July 21, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com. It was best to stand with your heels hanging off the edge of the concrete, your toes just touching the metal of the vent. We pushed our faces forward a bit to catch the stream of air escaping the vent behind the library at Boston University. [...]
The Mean Streets of Kalamazoo?
Posted in American Tunes, Kitsch Factor, State-by-State, Uncategorized, tagged Gary, Glen Miller, Indiana, Kalamazoo, Michigan, music, nicholas brothers, Ron Howard, Tex Beneke, The Music Man on July 20, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Flyover America has moved! Please join us at www.ReadFlyoverAmerica.com. A-B-C-D-E-F-G-H-I got a gal, in Kalamazoo. Don’t know that song? Do yourself a favor and burn eight minutes on the video clip below. Delicious. (And if you bail before the Nicholas Brothers go into their dance, we can’t be friends anymore.) How could any place with [...]
