Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

FITC in the GTA

Monday, April 21st, 2008

As a kid I was occasionally confused by Big Bird when he was talking about the last letter of the alphabet... one day it would be the letter “Zee” and the next it was “Zed”. I guess that's what happens when you grow up close enough to the Canadian border ...

Everything Pot Roast

Saturday, January 26th, 2008

Pot Roast Benedict the new breakfast of champions! Last weekend I was back in Western New York and stopped by a Flying J's to pick up some gas and coffee. Apparently Flying J's has decided to put "slow cooked Yankee pot roast" into a few unconventional items, namely egg benedicts and quesadillas. Both of ...

O Canada!

Saturday, November 3rd, 2007

Buck to Looney Exchange Rate Time to move to Canada... the U.S. Dollar has hit it's lowest exchange rate with the Canadian Dollar since the Civil War. 1 USD = 0.944 CAD 1 CAD = 1.059 USD

The Colorado of the East

Sunday, September 9th, 2007

Akron, New York: the Colorado of the East Apparently my hometown will soon be seen on Colorado tv screens in an anti-smoking commercial. Not sure how they are going to pull this off the closest mountains are hundreds of miles away. :) Original article: Buffalo News The film shoot came to Akron after Spy ...

Roll-a-Bum

Friday, August 10th, 2007

Drove behind a Google Street View camera car a couple of days ago and thought my car might have it's 15 minutes of fame. What I found instead was something, well... um, unusual:

New Years in London

Sunday, January 14th, 2007

This New Years was a blast! After visiting my family in Buffalo for Christmas, I jumped the pond and met my buddies Rocky and Andy in London. There are way too many stories to blog about here, but here is a very brief overview: Snake Bites, Magic Oktoberfest Hats, The Evil Eye, ...

Bean Town

Tuesday, February 15th, 2005

I was out visiting Jay in Boston and just got back yesterday. It's a cool city... we rode around on the green, orange and red lines and drove around Back Bay, Cambridge, and Quincy. The shores of the Charles River are beautiful... The city reminds me a lot of San Francisco and ...