JerryGlover.com - On Domino, the Internet, and other things - Category : Travel Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:15:52 -0400 http://www.jerryglover.com/JGBlog.nsf http://www.jerryglover.com/JGBlog.nsf/d6plinks/72UT3ZTravelJerry Gloverhttp://www.jerryglover.com/JGBlog.nsf/d6plinks/72UT3Zhttp://www.jerryglover.com/JGBlog.nsf/d6plinks/72UT3ZAaron Koblin using FAA data for flight patterns over the United States. The east coast is unsurprisingly the densest related directly to the population centers. Florida air traffic seems amazingly dense owing I guess to the flight corridors for originations (ATL, CIN, CHI) to Florida destinations cities aligning with the peninsula. It's fascinating to watch the air network "wake up" and progress through the day. Watch this and then think back to 9/11 and the days following when all this activity was completely stopped. ]]>Thu, 3 May 2007 17:23:09 -04000http://www.jerryglover.com/JGBlog.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=EC21F4FCC0FE455F852572D000755096http://www.jerryglover.com/JGBlog.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=EC21F4FCC0FE455F852572D000755096http://www.jerryglover.com/JGBlog.nsf/d6plinks/JGLR-6HD5SQCultureJerry Gloverhttp://www.jerryglover.com/JGBlog.nsf/d6plinks/JGLR-6HD5SQhttp://www.jerryglover.com/JGBlog.nsf/d6plinks/JGLR-6HD5SQDanish Zone.

Solvang is more than a little odd and slightly spooky. Imagine a budget DisneyWorld themed entirely on Danish traditions and built some 30+ years ago but not really updated since then. It's European with a touch of 70s kitsch. The town is completely dependent on the tourist trade as a shopping and pastry-eating destination. It basicly shuts down at sundown. There seems to be only a smattering of actual residents and therefore approximately a 1:1 ratio of bakeries to households. Oh, and several wine tasting rooms as well, since it's wine country. The challenge is to find a restaurant open for dinner and one that isn't Danish themed if you're there more than one night.

That challenge is how you find yourself in the oddest fusion restaurant ever. Not fusion of cuisine, but fusion of decor. The food is mexican, but the building is Danish, with vinyl padded chairs from thirty years ago. Wood beams are carved with with tulips and other similar motifs. Some of those carvings are now painted red, white and green and sombreros are hung around the room. And since it's October, the Halloween decorations are out and cobwebs are strung about tying the tulips and sombreros together in a ghoulish, low budget, multi-cultural fantasia.

The saving grace for the restaurant was that the food was pretty good. Tomorrow I check out. ]]>Thu, 20 Oct 2005 23:13:07 -04003http://www.jerryglover.com/JGBlog.nsf/CommentsRSS?Open&id=6CC4DBB4C2371D8D852570A10011A78Chttp://www.jerryglover.com/JGBlog.nsf/PostComment?RunAgent&id=6CC4DBB4C2371D8D852570A10011A78C