The Reader Travels is no longer just a solitary blog site feeding into my Facebook account. I’ve recently started The Reader Travels Vagabond Edition as part of the Vagabond Journey’s new blogger community. For now, it just means that I’m posting parallel blog entries each week, but I haven’t yet decided if I want to […]

When Arthur Dent found himself in a conversation with a cow at The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, he couldn’t help becoming a vegetarian.  I mean, what would you do if a cow stood there asking you which piece of her you’d like to eat? Perhaps you’d say, “I’ll just take a little milk, if you […]

In honor of Mother’s Day, I’d like to talk a little about guilt. Since my mother instilled in us what she called “a healthy sense of guilt,” I became a minor hedonist to balance things out a bit. So I love sex and I love food, and I feel no guilt about eating eggs from […]

So every traveler must face foods he has never eaten before. It’s part of the adventure to experience new things. These foods may seem unpalatable at first, but then we find that if we open our minds, they actually come out tasting quite delicious. As in the case of “Green Eggs and Ham,” by Dr. […]