Five things to remember when seducing Bond girl lookalikes
Bond girl lookalikes can be hard to handle: that mix of daunting beauty, steely resolution, intolerance of buffoonery, and more. I’ve typically learned the hard way and can proffer the […]
Bond girl lookalikes can be hard to handle: that mix of daunting beauty, steely resolution, intolerance of buffoonery, and more. I’ve typically learned the hard way and can proffer the […]
After making the three-and-a-half-hour drive from Austin along Interstate Highways 35 and 37 to spend a day and a night at Corpus Christi on the coast of Texas (hence the […]
Here in the U.S. the border with Mexico is a hot-button topic. I got a taste of that when I did a road trip while at the University of Texas, […]
Writing about the Iraq-Kuwait border got me thinking about other border crossings I’ve made or tried to make, or had done on my behalf, as happened when I was a […]
Having given myself too much lead-time going to Austin’s airport to pick up a friend flying in Sunday evening, I realized there was still an hour to go until the […]
Days on the road: about 28 Distance traveled: 3000 miles approx. Cities and towns visited: 14 Weekly alcohol intake: unhealthy amount, never to be repeated Wrong turns taken: a lot […]
Piecing together our three nights in Miami is hampered by fact that after nearly a month of the road, though I was certainly present in body, my mind was less […]
By now the hangovers were seismic and the occasional heart palpitation was evident. So as we left Key West and headed north skimming over the intra-coastal waterway linking the islands, conversation was kept to […]
Everywhere I looked, the bearded and somewhat admonishing visage of Ernest Hemingway looked down on me. Pete and I stood in Sloppy Joe’s, which was the aforementioned writer’s favourite bar […]
With the cigar fumes of Ybor City trailing in the early morning light behind us, we began our “top-speed run across the water all the way out to the last […]