Well, it looks like three swings and a miss as far as surfing conditions on the upper Gulf Coast so far. Three tropical disturbances have entered the Gulf and so far no great surf conditions (and not much rain in drought stricken Texas). Of course, we always hate to ask for storms because of the [...]
I love Greek food and now love Zorba's. We went there with about ten people and just missed the evening rush. We were seated in no time and the service was great. Greek food is rarely bad, it just tends to be either "meh" or great, and Zorba's is definitely in the great category. We [...]
When I was younger I surfed. Not great, well, not even really good, but I surfed. As my friends and I noticed, a surfboard strapped to the top of the vehicle made any car cool, thus making us more attractive to the beach honeys, or so we believed. As you probably know, I have a [...]
TripAdvisor released its annual survey of pool and beach etiquette, a survey based on information obtained form 1100 U.S. travelers. Based on my experience they seem to have hit the nail on the head with the following findings: "Americans were called out as the world’s worst beach and pool etiquette offenders, with New Yorkers named [...]
A Mexican tourist boat sank off of the Baja Peninsula on Sunday (July 3) and it appears at least one American died and six others are still missing at the time of this writing. 44 people were rescued. You can read the full story at this MSNBC article. Just a brief note for those of [...]
Off of the topic of writing for a second and onto another favorite subject… USA Today has done an article on a beach/pool behavior survey that was released by TripAdvisor. "In a beach etiquette survey of about 1,100 U.S. travelers by TripAdvisor, released this morning, 78% of respondents think toplessness is OK in destinations where [...]
