Sizzling Summer Deals in Palm Springs

Jon Lapidese

August 17, 2018

6 min read

I always felt sorry for folks who went to Palm Springs for a summer vacation. What were they expecting? Bubbling asphalt and an exploding radiator with their Mojitos? Don’t they understand that if summertime Palm Springs were an early sixties record album it would be called ‘Hot on Hot’?

Jon Lapidese

October 13, 2017

Our Own Private Portlandia

Jon Lapidese

October 13, 2017

5 min read

…And then there is the sort of vacation that has an ulterior motive. Like those settlers crossing the Oregon Trail, I too was having visions of paradise over that next hill… in today’s Oregon. Portland, Oregon. Portland, where 25-year-olds go to retire.