Category Archive: Travel Snapshots

Bay Area Green Tour offers a close up on local food production

Last October, I decided to take a Farm to Fork tour on a whim. The “whim” part of travel is relatively common for me, but I’m also one who likes to have everything… Continue reading

Barrel Tasting Sonoma, March 2011

Barrel Tasting, first weekend, March 2011.  Many thanks to Teke for making it happen. Just type in lemonzest to watch the video!

A place called ZaZa??? Houston boutique hotel does well for the traveler and the partier

It was spring, which in Texas means at least 90 degrees Fahrenheit, and I was on my way from San Marcos to Houston, driving a gas-guzzling Jeep and talking on my cell phone. … Continue reading

Perchance, a visit to the Museo Galileo in Florence

Italy, I’ve found, is a land of qualifiers and “but”s.  Things are usually one way, unless they are the other way.  The rental car was quoted online at 70 Euros, but after fees… Continue reading

City Yoga: Reliably good Anusara yoga in Columbia, South Carolina

Traveling for work usually ends in aches, pains, and a mildly sleepless night, thanks to strange surroundings, cable television, or the air conditioner, which clicks on and off incessantly in order to keep… Continue reading

Yerba mate and tribal beats in San Marcos, Texas

At Tantra Coffeehouse in San Marcos, a boy in a fedora served me yerba mate in my own cup. For five minutes, I felt at home. Which is a lot, in Texas.