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Child’s Play: Cheap Fun at Vegas’s Pinball Hall of Fame
Museums aren’t in plentiful supply here in Las Vegas; and the one’s that do exist are odd to say the least (like The Atomic Testing Museum, for example, The Exotic Heritage or the recently closed ‘Liberace Museum’). The Pinball Hall of Fame is no exception. The name can be misleading because the Pinball Hall … Continue reading
Are You a Perpetual Optimist? You May have Brain Damage
I’ve been accused of being optimistic to the point of being delusional and until reading an article in the Huffington Post, I assumed that all of the play-it-safers telling me not to backpack through Guatemala alone or vacation in Columbia were the ones not in touch with reality. They’re exaggerating, I thought. They’re wussies. They’re only cautioning … Continue reading
The World According to Hollywood
I was researching cultural stereotypes for one of the ESL classes I teach when I came across a video clip from the 80′s film Sixteen Candles. The clip shows a Chinese exchange student, Long Duck Dong, drunk and making a fool of himself in heavily-accented, incoherent English. Ironically enough, the actor who played Dong isn’t … Continue reading
Update: Your Favorite Travelholic Bought a House
Yep, you read that right. I bought a house! That’s part of the reason I haven’t been updating this blog; I’ve been too busy house-hunting, signing escrow paperwork, buying furniture, decorating and throwing housewarming parties (yes, that’s parties, plural). Not to worry, this doesn’t mean I’m hanging up the suitcase and retiring from the nomad … Continue reading
A Long Overdue Update
Hi there travel addicts! How’s the travel bug treatin’ ya? Last time we talked, I’d just moved to Vegas and was signing off from this blog for a while in order to finish my book. Well, I’m still in Vegas, though I regret to inform you that the sixth-month deadline for my book has come … Continue reading
