For those who might be going through some Game of Thrones withdrawal, and hasn’t already seen this, thanks to Geek and Sundry for bringing us this great music video plea to our favorite writer turned HBO sensation.
Also, I should really get around to reading A Dance with Dragons. Nic’s already read it once, and was immediately considering reading it a second time. Plus she’s been awesome about not spoiling it for me.

My dad can’t stop laughing at me these days, and it’s partially because every time I talk to him, I have a new plan to go somewhere.  This is fairly common – I usually have these plans stacking up in my brain – but he’s laughing at me now because I told him at Christmas (in Florida) that we’d be avoiding any more travel for the year to put the money into our house renovations.
This makes some sense, as we’ve been totally ignoring house renovation for travel since we moved …

For my 2010 birthday we decided to take a short cruise out of a Miami. Having done a Bahamian cruise a few years earlier with Nicole’s parents, we decided on a Mexican itinerary. Unfortunately Hurricane Paula had other plans, and we instead ended up in Nassau. Join us for our short tour, and more of Nicole’s house shopping while we’re traveling abroad (runs just under 3 1/2 minutes).

After the destruction caused by the Goths in 263 CE the city lay in ruin for over a hundred years. Not until the reign of emperor Constantine I in 395 would Ephesus see any effort to rebuild, but from this point would enjoy numerous renovations and additions under successive emperors and even rise to prominence as the second most important city in all the Byzantine Empire after Constantinople.
Unfortunately after the earthquake in 614 partially destroyed the city again, Ephesus slid further into decline as the harbor filled with silt and …

Probably one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned trying to continue gaming while pursuing my career and becoming a homeowner is that you’ve got to come to each session with a lot of flexibility. Whether it trying to schedule the session itself, or the inevitable curve ball your players throw your way, you’ve got to be ready to change course – especially midstream – and continue on.
I’ve already talked about how breaking your sessions up into individual scenes that can be more freely moved around in your timeline can allow …

Themed to be an intergalactic city of the future as envisioned during the 1950s, rockets and aliens play a big roll in the attractions found throughout this area. However, also being a place where visitors can experience possible blueprints of our future, has presented a number of challenges to the Walt Disney Company in seeking to keep Tomorrowland from becoming outdated.
Tomorrowland first opened at the Magic Kingdom on October 1, 1971, and like its predecessor at California’s Disneyland, opened unfinished, taking another four years before seeing completion. Some of …

Also known as the Knights Hospitaller, or simply the Hospitallers, the Order can originally trace its roots back as an offshoot of a Benedictine hospital established by Italian merchants in 1023 CE, after receiving permission from the Caliph Ali az-Zahir of Egypt to rebuild on the site of the Saint John the Baptist monastery destroyed almost twenty years earlier. Their mandate encompassed caring for the poor, sick, and injured faithful who made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
After the Western Christian conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 during the First Crusade, the organization …

Of all the lands in the Magic Kingdom, Fantasyland seemed to be undergoing one of the largest expansion in it’s history, with 2013 to see the area nearly doubled in size. Already home to seven attractions, not to mention the iconic Cinderella’s Castle where you can meet a princess or two, these renovations should see a Little Mermaid inspired ride, as well as a Beauty and the Beast themed area offering several dining experiences added. While the existing Snow White’s Scary Adventures has been removed, a Dwarf inspired mine train …

During our Mediterranean cruise we inadvertently ended up doing a tour of a number of World Heritage sites. And having written about those locations and the efforts taken by their respective country to maintain them and the cultural heritage they represent for generations to come, I thought I should talk a little more about what UNESCO’s World Heritage program is.
The scope of the program is to preserve cultural and natural heritage around the world deemed to be of great value to humanity, affirmed in the international treaty adopted by UNESCO …