One more post of some idyllic scenes from Iceland, OTD in 2021.
A few shots of Goðafoss, from On This Day in 2021.
Spotted in Akureyri, Iceland four years ago today. ❤️💛💚
Four fun photos of the road from Iceland, taken On This Day in 2021.
Free shower! (Iceland, OTD in 2021)
On This Day last year, I attempted—and failed miserably—to correctly pronounce even half of the official name of this town in Wales.
I finally wrote about my visit to Cabinetlandia, which was five years ago yesterday. And in doing so, I fell down a rabbit hole of research about this fun project—stuff I really wish I had known when I first visited out of a whim. This has Web 1.0 feels all over it.
On This Day in 2020, it looks like I caught the leading edge of an incoming haboob here in Phoenix.
My favorite waterfall in Iceland was Dettifoss, which is also the “angriest” waterfall I’ve met. What a cool scene. But it was only one of a number of cool waterfalls we visited On This Day in 2021.
I’m helping my mom purchase a vehicle after hers was totaled in an accident. Since it’s on my mind, I put together a list of my own highly opinionated rules for car buying.
My vista on this day last year.
A few waterfalls from OTD in 2023.
An essay in the New York Times this week—entitled I Reviewed Restaurants for 12 Years. They’ve Changed, and Not for the Better (🎁)—laments how technology has slowly dehumanized the dining experience.
It is just the latest in a series of changes that have gradually and steadily stripped the human touch and the human voice out of restaurants. Each of these changes was small, but together they’ve made going out to eat much less personal. Meals are different now, and our sense of who we are is different, too.
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In my first few years on the job, I thought of restaurants as one of the few places left where our experiences were completely human.
It’s something I’ve noticed too, and wrote a little about earlier this year: Two Men in a McDonald’s in Small Town America.
20 seconds of Eilean Donan Castle in the Scottish Highlands, OTD in 2023.
My buddy is moving away, which means we needed one more Return to Paradise (Lounge).
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My BlogPrompts.fyi site—which offers (you’ll never guess it) a whole bunch of random topics for you to blog about—now features over 350 prompts, FYI.
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A few shots from On This Day last year in Scotland.
On This Day in 2023: Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries. 🪵🐇
On This Day in 2019, I brought my dad up to an ASU football practice at Camp Tontozona, its annual training camp that’s located in the cool pines just under the Mogollon Rim. Camp T has been an annual tradition for more than six decades now.
A runway that changed the world
On this day 79 years ago, this runway on the small island of Tinian in the Mariana Islands changed the world. It was from this stretch of remote pavement that the Enola Gay took to the air with a ferocious new weapon, headed to Hiroshima to inflict unbelievable damage.
We visited the then-abandoned site in 2017 as part of our travel quest to visit all the major sites associated with the Manhattan Project.
