Restaurant reviews – the opinions expressed are solely my own. Often, though it will appear that they’re based on a single visit, they’re based on more than one. And I’m willing to hear from folks who disagree – I do know that restaurants, including my own, have their off days.
Harold: I want 30 sliders, 5 french fries, and 4 large cherry cokes. Kumar: I want the same except make mine diet cokes. – from Harold & Kumar go to White Castle While White Castle may not have invented the hamburger, and in fact that tasty treat’s origins are a matter of some dispute, there… Read More Not Quite Slyders
“Every few thousand years some shepherd inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God.” – Kerry Thornley, co-founder of Discordianism I stand corrected, or rather sit. You see, I made fun of the claim of Boedo’s Café Margot that the turkey sandwich… Read More More From the Turkey Sandwich Front
“Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return.” – E.M. Forster, author A recent bout with the vagaries of Argentine supply and demand led me far afield. It was the sort of thing that would simply not have… Read More Alongside the Far Beaten Track
“Too few people understand a really good sandwich.” – James Beard Growing up in the midwest, lunch was virtually always a sandwich. Even to this day I tend to prefer that for lunch, regardless of whether it’s some basic comfort version like grilled cheese, peanut butter, or tuna salad, or something fancy like a club.… Read More Sandwiches
Our main reason for heading to Chiclayo had nothing to do with the beaches, nice as they were. We wanted to visit the archaeological sites for the Lord of Sipán, who was the ruler of the Moche culture in this area a whole lot o’ time ago – somewhere between 100-700AD. The site of his… Read More Lord of Sipán
Continuing our little tour on our first day in Chiclayo, our taxista insisted we had to see the two main beaches, for which, though we didn’t know it, apparently the city is quite well known. First up, Playa Santa Rosa, which is known as the fishermen’s beach. And, it really is pretty dedicated to them… Read More Beached in Chiclayo
Henry and I have very different modes of travel. At first glance, given our personalities, you’d think he’d be sort of the free spirit wanderer and I’d be the one who wants all the details nailed down. But vacations, perhaps, are the place where people want to be a bit different from their day to… Read More On the Road Again
Just a final post for the last day in Santiago, then on to northern Peru…. Started the day with a visit to the Museo del Arte Precolombino, hmm, it occurs to me that so often I hear from Latin Americans how much they dislike the whole conquistador thing which they lay the beginning of at… Read More The End of Santiago