Last month I checked off a prodigious bucket-list item: I saw a blue-footed booby in his natural habitat. He was minding a chick so implausibly fluffy it looked like a Jim Henson creation. As a child, I’d seen a display of taxidermy birds behind glass at a natural history museum. Among them was a blue-footed […]
Travel Notes
Junk ’n’ Treasure — Thanks to SkyMall, Our Atmosphere is Full of It
Traveling back and forth from East Texas to Chicago as often as I do, I am overly familiar with the contents of SkyMall. The tagline for the inflight catalog should be “Because useless crap looks irresistible at a cruising altitude of 30,000 feet!”