Perhaps we should judge a life by how one is remembered. My dad, who died 10 years ago today, had a SRO funeral. A few hundred Tulsans filled the aisles around seats fit for 200. Many were people I’d never met. Friends from … Read on
Researching Lonely Planet guidebooks, you end up seeing dozens and dozens of museums no one would really bother with. Some of them I loved. The Romanian Peasant Museum in Bucharest, for example, has hand-written signs and an arrow leading to a makeshift “grandma” … Read on
When Chris Christensen of the Amateur Traveler asks if you want to talk about Oklahoma, you ask ‘how high?’ It was a pleasure to record this podcast: Amateur Traveler Episode 295 – Travel to Oklahoma with Robert Reid from Lonely Planet For more … Read on
Boley! I never knew about Boley for years, not until going back home after 10 years as an expat Okie in places like New York, London, Melbourne and Saigon. I wrote more on Boley for Lonely Planet. Meanwhile, this happened: That’s right, Lonely … Read on
Oklahoma is known as ‘Native America’ — at least per its license plates. No state has, per capita, more Native Americans than our 46th state, whose name means ‘red people’ in Choctaw language. That’s only part of the picture. Around the time of … Read on
In the most underrated travel story of our young decade, veteran NBA guard Kevin Ollie spoke to ESPN about his new home, Oklahoma City — a place that has the reputation as something of an “NBA purgatory.” Ie The last place you’d want … Read on
