I could never live in the NYC. Too intense, too crowded, for a suburban SoCal kid. But for a day or three? Yeah. NYC can be a rush. My daughter and I did a week in an afternoon today, or so it seemed.

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As a displaced fan of most Los Angeles sports teams, I will take some time out from the latest travelogue to give credit where it is due: To the veteran management team of the Lakers. And to the new management team of the Dodgers. Both franchises have been proactive, and imaginative, and as fans of […]

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More peregrinations. From Abu Dhabi to the middle of New Jersey in eight “easy” steps covering 25 hours.

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This has been an ongoing story for the past two weeks, here in the UAE, and it has gotten lots of attention. The 11-year-old English boy whose fear of flying is so intense that he cannot or will not fly. And how will he get home to Somerset?

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I’m guessing this Olympics programming is doing well enough in the ratings that NBC will want to renew it. Another 23 episodes, for sure. A whole season. Oh, yeah. The London 2012 Games end on Sunday. Do we have any solutions to this?

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London has turned out to be a fine city to host a modern Olympics. Lots of diversions, plenty of local expertise to make it all happen, good facilities, nice people, easy to reach … London is not new at this, though, having hosted twice before, including in 1948. But that was long ago, before the […]

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You hear this, now and then. And I did the other day on BBC. Or maybe it was Al Jazeera, here in the Gulf. That Usain Bolt, sprinter from Jamaica, “saved” track and field. Perhaps kept it from going extinct? Is that what “saved” means? Which is silly, of course. Track and field now is […]

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Watch track and field … athletics, most of the world calls it … and you will see some strange things. (And, no, that does not include U.S. teams throwing the baton and throwing the baton during the 4×100 or 4×400 relays; that happens at every Olympics.) Not many recent episodes, however, have been stranger that […]

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We continue to think of travel as difficult, but it really is not, in the abstract, compared to 10 years ago, never mind 50 or 100. Multiple flights, multiple varieties of ground transport … So, in Coventry, England. Going back to Abu Dhabi, UAE. How to?

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We never assumed life in the Athletes Village, at the Olympics, was a matter of mass celibacy. Thousands of young, fit athletes, far from home, all leading monastic lives … But I did wonder, over the years, about the logistics. If you have the women’s dorm over here, and the men’s dorm over there … […]

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