I just got back from a wild and wooly four days in New Orleans, where the wife and I celebrated our anniversary by going to Jazzfest. Yes, we acknowledged our joining in this “sacred institution” by drinking for days on end, dropping into our spinning bed way too late at night, and gorging ourselves on …

Last week, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about the lengths some companies are going to with their architects in order to get us “knowledge economy” fat-butts to get some exercise during the day. They’re putting parking lots as far away from the offices as they can, in order to make people walk further. …

Need a place to crash? Well, you don’t need to have dozens of friends scattered around the world to find a place to rest your head. If you own a home, you can exchange your house for a week, a month, or maybe more. Homeowner or not, you can sign up with a program that …

OK, so while you buy the “travel when others aren’t” idea in theory, maybe you’re just not willing to step out of our dangerous but familiar coccoon and into an unfamiliar frontier of SARS, terrorism, and flag burning. Well there’s a place for you too, and it’s not so far away. It’s called Latin America …