Posts Tagged: Travels and Other Places
An Ann Arbor Round Up
Posted by on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 in - 4 comments
First, I would like to thank the Canadian dollar for peaking just about the very weekend we traveled. Then I would like to thank the new customs guy who asked "you mean like a bunch of cases" when I advised I had 67 beer in the back - to which I responded "well, I have some singles." Woot. • Ann …
Mennonite Sunday Service Over For Another Week
Posted by on Sunday, November 11, 2007 in - 8 comments
Today. North of Waterloo Ontario. 12:10 pm. Click for a bigger view if you like.
A Saturday In 2007 And Those Of The 80s
Posted by on Saturday, November 3, 2007 in - 1 comment
If you are interested, I wrote a bit about Halifax in the 1980s yesterday for The Session, a monthly thematic series where beer bloggers globally write on the one same topic. Yesterday was "beer and music" and that reminded me of the Halifax of my young wayward adulthood. • It also reminded me …
The Red Sox Make My Life Better
Posted by on Monday, October 22, 2007 in - 1 comment
Not that things are bad but if it weren't for the Red Sox I wouldn't have met the nice people from Albany attending a wedding at our hotel's bar on Saturday night. I wouldn't have been able to watch them checking the scores inning by inning as they dashed in, a little less stable from their free …
Travelling South With My Simmering Economic Rage
Posted by on Saturday, October 20, 2007 in - 8 comments
I am not really helping things. But you know I have been driving into the US on a regular basis for years. Yet still I intend to shop. • “Canada's loonie has been at or above par with the American dollar for weeks, which has sparked outrage among shoppers frustrated by the fact goods still cost …
Baltimore Pit Beef For Christmas
Posted by on Monday, October 8, 2007 in - 8 comments
Big Al's and Chaps, Baltimore • Highlight of the last bit of 2007 (and have you realized that we are 3/4s though the first decade of the 21st century?) is going to be a trip to Baltimore. I got invited last Christmas to write a chapter of a book called Beer and Philosophy and now we are invited …
Stewart Park, Ithaca, NY
Posted by on Tuesday, September 4, 2007 in - leave a comment
A Kick In The Teeth
Posted by on Saturday, August 25, 2007 in - 2 comments
Amongst all the insane middle-of-the-night thunder and lightning - again - I turned on the radio and heard that the Yankees were tied at six in the 6th inning in Detroit...because, due to rain delay, they only started at 11 pm and finished in extra innings around 3:30 am. Smile and back to sleep …
Power Turns On The Ferry
Posted by on Monday, August 20, 2007 in - 2 comments
Yesterday, we took the Glenora ferry over to Prince Edward County. Easlakia is a ferry fan's dream with five within an hour of HQ and more in the hinterland like those on the Ottawa river and Lake Champlain. Yet, I have never had the ferry captain put on a show like yesterday when, apparently as a …
Important BBQ Knowledge
Posted by on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 in - 1 comment
Via NYCO, and just for the record, this post is very important not because of its critique of the Dino BBQ but because of its identification of three more worthy WNY BBQ joints to explore: • “But there I was, chewing on a rib as Harleys rumbled up and parked next to my outdoor table, thinking …
