For all you diehard Trekkies out there (c’mon, I can’t be the only one), I have more tidbits on the ending of the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton. This information comes straight from the mouths (keyboards?) of some of the STTE castmembers who have made it such a memorable experience for [...]

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There’s a very interesting interview in the 7/20/08 Newsweek with the CEO of Amtrak, Alex Kummant, talking about the expansion of rail service in the U.S. as a result of high oil prices. I have long been a proponent of expanding the rail infrastructure in this country and increasing rail service in high-traffic [...]

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The Vegas Internet community is all abuzz tonight with the news that a great discount code (SDM060, “The Ultimate Escape”) that had been shared all over the Internet–on normally trusted sites–was only intended for certain MGM player’s club members, and many, many unhappy travelers have received emails from the MGM Grand telling them, essentially, that [...]

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I was running errands the other day downtown in Burlington and had a couple of hours to kill while waiting to pick something up from a repair shop. I decided I was in the mood for some strawberry shortcake, so went in search of a restaurant that had it. And searched….and searched…and searched. [...]

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…must come to an end, but do they all have to end at the same damn time???
Word hit the Internet today that the Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton is closing in September. I figured it would close sometime this year, as news came in April that it had no contract beyond [...]

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Finally, another free thing to do in Burlington, VT. From the University of Vermont’s press release:

UVM to Offer Weekly Historic Tour of Campus
Founded in 1791, the University of Vermont is the fifth oldest university in New England, after Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, and Brown.
Beginning next weekend, the university will bring its long and illustrious history [...]

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Today’s meal of choice at the Chew Chew Festival was lunch. It was a muggy, overcast day. A bank of rainclouds blocked the view of the Adirondacks across Lake Champlain, so I knew rain was on the way. I decided not to waste a lot of time dilly-dallying. I got there, [...]

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Another year, another Chew Chew Festival on the Waterfront. Day 1 has concluded, and I was there to check it out. The weather on Friday night could not have been nicer–not too hot, not too cool, no rain, and just a breath of a breeze to keep it from being too sticky. I [...]

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Every Saturday during the summer months (early May through October), Burlington, Vermont’s City Hall Park hosts its weekly Farmers Market and Artists Market from around 9am-2pm (don’t quote me on exact times). It’s been a few years since I’ve been to the Farmer’s Market, since I live a little outside town now, but for [...]

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Finally, after weeks of typing away behind the scenes, running around town taking photos, and tons of online research, I am finished! (Well, as finished as I can be with pages that will have to be maintained, added to, and updated on a regular basis.) This has been a labor of love, to [...]

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