Travel Gear: Trekking Gloves

In Marketing class I learned about a man who had a bunch of folding stools to sell. He first positioned them as general-purpose folding stools, but there were no takers. He sold them all when he positioned them as fishing stools. A well-positioned product connects with a specific market. With a bit of luck, the…… Continue reading Travel Gear: Trekking Gloves

Queen Boadicea

Caribou Coffee: Demonstrated my extensive knowledge of world history. (Most British schoolkids can answer this one.)

Categorized as Play

Gas

It was breakfast at the Granvia Okayama Hotel. The tour group at the next table murmured in agreement as the colonel railed against typographical errors in the itinerary. I pegged him as “the colonel,” now a paper-pusher, close to retirement.  It was impossible to tune him out as he recalled his first encounter with the…… Continue reading Gas

Gas

Posted about gas.

Categorized as Fails

Couch Potato

Today I’m a couch potato/cold sufferer: blame it on travel. Still, I’m grateful for travel, grateful it’s only a cold.

Our Castle in England

Posted about our castle in England. (OK, our castle for a week.)… (OK, it’s a gatehouse.)

Categorized as Living