Why is it everytime we talk about "reining in the expenses" we go do something like this??? Sometimes my naïveté, or possibly it’s my ‘childish innocence’ (haha) lets wife get the best of me. I knew there was a reason she wanted to use Dubai as the stop between Turkey and Sri Lanka. “It will cut the flight time down and give us a sensible stop between time zones. Plus, we haven’t been there before…” she said. "Ohkhay" I said, channeling Forrest Gump. “Sensible” should have sounded the alarm...

Tur kiye  - sort of like Morocco’s Hollywood throbb’ish really sexy big brother, except for the magically reappearing and never-ending cigarette in his mouth. If not for the constant cigarette smoke in the air, this country would be in my (still evolving) top 5 list. It’s also one of the safest places I feel I’ve ever been…which is odd. For me, the most dangerous thing in this country, aside from 2nd through 24th hand smoke, are the ancient sidewalks in all of the archeological sites. It’s...

"The rosé goes down easy in this country" L. Padilla, nightly in September Well this place doesn't suck... September flew by way too quickly. WAY too quickly. I never had Greece on my ‘Must do’ list. Stupidly, I think it was because I have never liked feta cheese. Or Moussaka. You’d think with such a cool sounding name that it has to taste good, but I really don’t like eggplant so it definitely shouldn’t be used in anything anyway. But for years now Greece has been number one for Lyd. So I...