TIME-MACHINE TOWNS PART 2
YESTERDAY WE VISITED THREE U.S. Small Towns residing in time-machines of sorts. Today in Part 2, dailypassport’s Marissa Kozma describes three more of these towns, one in my native Ohio, … Continue reading
TIME-MACHINE TOWNS PART 1
MARISSA KOZMA WRITES IN the dailypassport website about “6 U.S. Small Towns That Feel Like Stepping Back in Time”. Being well-travelled and of a certain age, I find that they … Continue reading
WATCHING ONE’S MANNERS AT TABLE AND BAR
WHAT A NEAT MAP FROM REMITLY via Mental Floss! “The World’s Food and Drink Etiquette, Mapped,” is in concise formats foldable into one’s Baedeker’s. World travelers like me (hem hem) … Continue reading
TALES OF THE 5S AND OTHERS
IT IS WITH MIXED PRIDE AND SHAME that I read Fiona Young-Brown’s “The 10 Busiest Highways in the U.S.” in the dailypassport website. Pride, because I contend successfully with these … Continue reading
CANALS TO BE SAVORED
THE DISCOVERER BLOG offers “9 Canal Rides You Have to Take,” three of which I’ve already enjoyed—and one that Discoverer missed but could well have included. Here are tidbits about … Continue reading
HORATIO’S TRIBUTE AND A RAYMOND CHANDLER FALSE LEAD
WHAT’S THE LINK BETWEEN Horatio’s last words in Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Harry Jones’s final misleading in Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep? This is the sort of thing that pops into … Continue reading
SOUTHEAST MUSINGS
THE DISCOVERER BLOG’S “10 ESSENTIAL STOPS Along the Southeastern Coast” rekindled memories of my own touring down that way. Several of these have already appeared here at SimanaitisSays, but I’d … Continue reading
MORE (CLEAN) ENERGY TO YA
“HOW DOES YOUR STATE MAKE ELECTRICITY,” asks Nadja Popovich in The New York Times, August 2, 2024. What’s more, she provides the answers in a most illustrative way. Here are … Continue reading
LET’S GO TO EXTREMES
HERE ARE TIDBITS OF GLOBAL EXTREMES of one sort or another gleaned from a variety of online sources. A principal one is the dailypassport website. Unexpected Geographical Superlatives. The dailypassport … Continue reading
Simanaitis Says 
HIGH PRAISE FOR GEORGE THE CAT
WHAT WITH JD (“JERK DEFINITIVE”) VANCE and all, this may evolve into The Year of the Cat. And, as described by BBC, August 21, 2024, George, a “Popular Train Station … Continue reading →