Category: Travel

In mid-December, Callie and I spent a few days in Prague with our friend Ethan.

I’ve finally posted some of the photos here.

Prague was well worth visiting, and surprisingly affordable for Europe. Highlights included:

• A visit to the Orthodox Church of Sts. Cyril and Methodius, where the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich hid out and then took their own lives rather than perish at the hands of the Nazis.
• An exhibit put on by the Vaclav Havel

FareCompare sent out a notice on a GREAT fare from IAH to HNL earlier.

About $430 all in will get you to Hawaii and back on Continental (about 7,800 miles or so), and there is decent availability (use this tool‘s month search feature).

I don’t really have much interest in Hawaii, but I am always interested in great fares to places I’ve never been, and may just pull the trigger on a January Hawaii weekend.

There are

After a LONG day in Tulsa yesterday, my parents and I decided to stop on the way back home for takeout burgers from Andy’s Hamburger’s in Barnsdall.

My parents went in the tiny cafe, and I plopped down at an outside picnic table to watch the goings on.

(Andy’s Hamburgers, in Barnsdall, OK)

A pickup truck pulled in, a guy got out,

Continental Airlines today backtracked on one of several recently announced changes that had been widely denounced. Here’s the email I got today:

Earlier this month, we announced that

All need not reply to this ‘reply all’ column (Ken Hoffman, Houston Chronicle)

Just got back from my vacation in London. While there, I stumbled across the Texas Embassy Cantina near Trafalgar Square. They serve Mexican food and