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.