Tips and Trips

10 Things to Do On A Rainy Day

It’s another rainy day in NYC. Today we emerge from our ratty subway holes beneath the windy canvass domes of umbrellas. Crap, rain drops on the iPhone. That can’t be good. Maybe I shouldn’t be blogging while walking in the rain. But that’s a slippery slope. Once I start listening the those sort of inward murmurings, will…

A Great Storytelling Game for Children and Rabble Rousing Rum Drinkers

We were having a meeting (because you know, we had a conference table at the after-after party in Toronto, so why not) when the game emerged from the cockroach corner of our minds and spread through our veins until Storyawesomein, the neurotransmitter responsible for storying telling, became strong with us. This could be one of those had-to-be-there…

Avoiding The Worst Travel Mistake You Can Make

I almost did something totally cray-cray. I almost went home for Christmas from NYC to Bismarck via a 44 hour bus saga. What the bag of poorly trained chimpanzees was I thinking? I thought it would be nice, taking the scenic route, watching as the temperate East unfolded into the snow speckled woods slowly transforming…

5 Essential Items You Never Think To Bring When You Travel

You’re far away from home. Your in, we’ll say, the jungle. Lost in the jungle and forging for food. (Don’t eat the green beetles!) It’s about now that you wish you had a lot of things you probably didn’t pack on a trip. Things that are so versatile, they can help you deal with wardrobe…