http://www.baldseal.com Please Don't Buy the Bald Seal Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:31:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en After a night of camping midway between Quebec City and Montreal, we hit the road with our sights set on our room at the W in Montreal. We were ready to see what the city had to offer, but didn't really know what to expect, despite having a Frommer's. Basically ... http://www.baldseal.com/?p=446 After about 24 hours of driving/camping/gorging, we made it to our first of two cities to check out: Quebec City. This city is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen. Maybe Florence challenges it. The center of the city is elevated and built behind a wall. It's the only ... http://www.baldseal.com/?p=443 Last month Audrey and I took a much needed vacation. We've been trying to go to as many places in and around the northeast as we can and the next on our list was Canada! I've wanted to drive to Montreal and Quebec City since we first moved here. I'd heard ... http://www.baldseal.com/?p=440 It's over. My last full NYC winter. It's strange how winter ends around here. You get a few days of teasing warm weather in late March, early April, then it plunges back to cold. Finally, one day it gets hot and humid as all hell. Then it starts raining every ... http://www.baldseal.com/?p=438 I was fortunate to have a chance to go to Texas not once, but twice in the past several weeks. The first trip was to Houston, which was a nice city, but seemed like it was mostly parking structures and freeways. It actually reminded me a lot of Orange County, ... http://www.baldseal.com/?p=434 http://www.baldseal.com/?p=431 Greetings from Astoria! Here are a couple of winter pics I took the other night. Despite all the snow, the days are getting longer and actually warmer. I still find it strange that the temperature is often warmer when it's snowing. Anyway, winter is wrapping up and that's a good thing ... http://www.baldseal.com/?p=428 This is something I have very little experience with, but thanks to my reading of the awesome car blog Jalopnik, I got a little working knowledge. It seems like a bunch of teams with real piles of cars get together to do some races to the death (for the car ... http://www.baldseal.com/?p=423 On our last morning, we decided to head to the place with the frozen fountain from the first night which offered a solid cajun brunch buffet! We were pretty wiped out at this point with so much walking, eating and drinking, so we took it fairly easy... The aforementioned brunch The fountain ... http://www.baldseal.com/?p=420 The morning was rough after the cocktail tour and run in with absinthe. The only cure was to be brunch and a bloody mary it was decided. Off we went to Brennan's, which I think is famous for inventing Banana's Foster, but I might not be totally correct on that. Audrey ... http://www.baldseal.com/?p=417