
“One of the 50 best restaurants in America.”
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“One of the 50 best restaurants in America.”
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Every year, a block of Hampden’s 34th street gets decked out for Christmas. Here are pictures from Christmas night. Continue reading

Here are shots from the airplane window from some recent flights. In some, the exhaust from the engine blurs part of the image so it looks like you’re looking down at the earth through a snow globe. Pretty cool effect.
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After 6 years of gazing longingly through the window and drooling, I finally ate at Iron Chef Morimoto’s restaurant in Philadelphia.

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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 2007
Enough with the cities. On Saturday morning, we left Cork to see the real Ireland. The small towns. The rolling countryside. The sheep.
We would not be disappointed.

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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2007
On Friday, we would rent a car and drive from Dublin to Cork on the wrong side of the road.
And so, for the first time since puberty, I lay awake in the middle of the night mentally rehearsing the act of driving.

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Everyone told me how green Ireland is. And they were right! As soon as I stepped on the Aer Lingus plane, everything was green. The seats were green. The flight attendants’ uniforms were green. And, thanks to the in-flight meal, even the passengers were green.
After dinner, four flight attendants sauntered through the cabin armed with teapots, asking at each row, “Tea? Tea? Tea?” They sounded like a flock of very confused birds.
When they got to the front of the plane, a large black man responded “Yes?”
It was Mr. T.
(You’re full of crap. -Editor)
The flight, which left at 7pm Baltimore time, landed at 6:30 am Ireland time. I slept on the plane not at all. Thursday would be a long, tired day.

San Diego claims to be America’s Finest City. They may very well be right. This batch of pictures is fro the first trip out there, March 28-31 2007. Stay tuned for more. Continue reading

I left for Syracuse early on a Wednesday morning in October, filled with dread for the long drive ahead. Continue reading

1. Mannequins have nipples.
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