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Greetings and thanks for stopping by. Canape? This is the blog formerly known as Cap’n Blog and Salty which was once found on www.nerdsonfilm.net. I will still be writing about food, travel and my beloved City of Roses. All of my previous blog entries will still be available here. And, hey!, I might even try to [...]

Attention, readers of this blog! All 4 of you! As promised more than a year ago, I am moving the blog. I will maintain nerdsonfilm.net as a place for travel photo albums and whatnot, but the blog itself gets a new name and home. It will henceforth be known as… Tiny Sandwiches and can be found at [...]

We’ve been home a couple weeks now which I suppose means I should get around to finishing up writing my blog entries about the trip. And what better place to start than with Thanksgiving? Right after we got back from our trip to Vietnam, we headed out to Ban Rai, a pastoral town northeast of Bangkok [...]

thanks to my fans, I got a runner-up prize for my chocolate pretzel instructable. that prize comes with a rad robot t-shirt, stickers and bragging rights. And I’m good at bragging.

Our main goal in visiting Vietnam was to go to the central region of the country and visit some of the places Chris’s dad had been when he was stationed there during the war. We’d do some sightseeing — and eating, of course — while we were there, too. We started out in Hue, the [...]

It only takes about 2 hours to get from Bangkok to Hanoi, but the two cities feel centuries apart. Bangkok is all brashness, noise and bluster; at just about 200 years old it’s one of the youngest capital cities in Asia. Hanoi, on the other hand, is getting ready to celebrate its 1000th birthday as [...]

After a few days of acclimating Chris’s parents to life in Bangkok, we dragged them upriver to Ayutthaya, the former Thai capital, sacked by the Burmese in the late 1700s. The temples and palace buildings are eerie reminders of the teeming city that once was there. And, this being Thailand, there was plenty of good [.

Aside from the Sonoran hot dog, the other thing I was most excited to encounter here in Arizona was this creature called the javelina. Unfamiliar? Take a look at some pics of these creatures and you may become as enamored as I did. They are adorable, but listen, don’t call them pigs or you might [...]

You know how I said I was through with the Sonoran hot dog? Well, I thought I was, but apparently it wasn’t through with me. After our hot dog adventures, we gave up on the local favorite. But the other night when we were cruising for late night taco stands we were tricked into stopping at [...]

The very first part of the fellowship program which has brought me to sweltering Tucson actually took place one snowy weekend in January in Denver. That was where we first met our sponsoring schools and mentors and discussed program details and plans for the summer. I got the lowdown on my project and after a [...]