Speaking of morality...

Let's have some standards! As you indulge your taste for ice cream and lottery tickets, we're not asking for much: Could you please ...

But what about all that snow?

Flight alert just received via airport WiFi: NW 247 February 25 ON TIME departs DTW at 7:26 pm arrives MSN 7:41 pm Gate 4 Okay. I'm taki...

I admit it.

I'm in Ithaca. I'm here to see the law school show tonight. Unlike NYU (where I went to law school) and Wisconsin, they don't ta...

Cedar Point.

Last month, when I was planning my drive out to Ithaca and back, lots of readers advised me to take a quick detour from I-90 and go to the r...

Glancing up, noticing piles of things everywhere.

A pile of exams, needing grading. A pile of things brought in from the car after the Ithaca trip, not yet put away. A pile of bills to pay. ...

Grounded, once again, in Madison, taking a brief account of a long trip.

I need to readjust to being home, to my familiar ritual of sitting at the dining table paging through the NYT and sporadically blogging. Tod...

Leaving Ithaca.

It's time for me to hit the road again. I've got to load up the car with John's things. (I hope it all fits in my little coupe.)...

Ithaca.

My view into the gorge is not unlike everyone else's view into the gorge, but here: That shows I'm in Ithaca. The Cornell campus is ...

On the radio.

For some reason, driving from Cleveland to Ithaca today, I felt like listening to talk radio , and I just kept switching back and forth betw...

A great day for wine.

I spent the whole day driving, with much of the drive through wine country, and now, here in Ithaca, I would love a nice glass of wine, but ...

Leaving Cleveland.

I've packed up my bags and called for the car. Time to roll out of Cleveland and take the scenic backroads route to Ithaca. But with any...

Off to Cleveland.

I don't know about you, but I'm going to Cleveland. Why Cleveland? It's halfway to Ithaca, my destination. I'm going to toss...

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

I need to drive east, to pick up my son in Ithaca next week, and I've decided to stop halfway there in Cleveland and take a day to see t...

Summer driving.

Next month, I'm going to finally take my newish Audi TT Coupe for a long drive, going from Madison to Ithaca to pick up my son. I've...

Easter and the end of Spring Break.

It's Easter and barely 30 degrees here in Madison, but it's sunny, the birds are singing in a springtime style, and, supposedly, it...

Madison and driving.

The End Zone has lots to say about the drive from Ft. Worth to Madison and about Madison itself, where I read it is a beautiful day, so I g...

On the pain of not living in a swing state.

When I was in Ithaca a few days ago, I noticed a lot of yard signs that said: Bush must go! Bush lied, thousands died. Of course, I can'...

Leaving Ithaca.

It's dawn as I sit in the Statler Hotel looking out into the misty city of Ithaca. Time for me to make my way home. Having driven out he...

Hotels with "High-speed Internet Access."

So let's say you want a hotel with internet access, and you find a hotel with a website that says " High-speed Internet Access ....

Greetings from Ithaca.

We made it most of the way to Ithaca yesterday, ending up at the northern tip of one of the westernmost Fingerlakes. So yesterday was a day ...