Franklinsanity
A crank's musings on family, drink, travel, food & life
Category: travel
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9:30 am ET, Sunday August 7 – Franklinsanity2016, Part Deux has commenced. And it’s been about three weeks since I blogged. What can I say? Life got too busy to catalogue and the sunshine was super bright. In any case, after a superb interlude in the Far North Adirondacks – where we visited a family…
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6:42 am Tuesday, New Haven CT: seventeen years in, can we give a shout out to the venerable but still durable and amazingly well done MetroCard vending machines? Growing up in NYC, I hadn’t given much thought to these things since ’99, when I think they were introduced (sorry, too impatient to check Wikipedia, which…
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440 pm Tuesday, Chicago, Illinois – The Langham is a fine hotel. Glossy. Spare. Elegant. Your check-in experience is conducted in hushed undertones. Or at least mine was. The positive effects of all this were unfairly limited by the huge number of tourists and passers-by and police hovering around the building across the street. Which…
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