A Pen on Ten (Part 1 – The Ten We Miss)

People love round numbers, and as I glance at the calendar, I realize that one such number (10) is approaching for my blog. A lot has changed since that very first post in May 2014, where I related why I didn’t start the blog right after my move to Ohio. As I wrote then: At that time, I had played with the idea of a … Continue reading A Pen on Ten (Part 1 – The Ten We Miss)

The Neal & Del Award (Pt. 2)

As alluded to in Part 1 of this post, we traveled to California this year without much of a hard-set schedule, and it ended up thwarting our plans to seek out some the Bay Area specific culinary treasures, especially Burmese food. The San Francisco Bay Area is rich with this cuisine, with eateries from Corte Madera to Benicia in the north, to Livermore and San … Continue reading The Neal & Del Award (Pt. 2)

The Neal & Del Award (Pt. 1)

A few days before Christmas, my wife and I boarded an airplane for travel for the first time since 2019. Not counting the first year of the COVID-19 Pandemic (2020, when we did not travel anywhere significant), we achieved something equivalent to the (unofficial) Neal & Del award, as we ended up taking a plane, a train and an automobile to go to/travel back from … Continue reading The Neal & Del Award (Pt. 1)