From the now-defunct Black Hole in Los Alamos, NMI wrote on this blog pretty steadily from January 2004 to early 2015, and then it started a slow (but graceful!) decline until it was finally put to bed in February 2016.

A few ways to explore:

Scroll back to see the last two posts, my collected wisdom on renting cars and booking flights, after 15 years of travel writing.
The very first post (this became a chapter in Forking Fantastic!)
All posts about the travails of a guidebook author
A very important post about vintage hotels, and another about motels
All posts about cooking from Robert Farrar Capon’s wonderful book The Supper of the Lamb
My series of counterintuitive travel tips and reasons travel is better when you’re older
All posts about Queens, and NYC in general
All posts about New Mexico
All posts about Thailand
All posts about Mexico (including a multimedia extravaganza!)
Assorted posts about the Middle East and greater Mediterranean: Egypt, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, Lebanon, Greece, the UAE, and even Qatar

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