Soon after I started traveling to disaster cleanup sites — my Dirty Gigs — I was faced with a dilemma. Should I critique or review a hotel in which I live for two weeks or more? Would that be fair, since in the span of oh, say, 30 days, you probably get to witness just […]

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RAN-CHO …. KOOK-a-MONGA! Rancho Cucamonga … Say it aloud. “Rancho Cucamonga.”  If you are old enough to remember back when David Letterman was still funny and cutting edge, he used to pause and just say funny sounding words for comic effect. “Rancho Cucamonga.” Perhaps a missed opportunity, Dave. So, yes, I was cruising Rancho Cucamonga […]

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The PingWi-Fi entourage just touched down in Ontario, Calif., but before we start another West Coast Wi-Fi tour, there is some unfinished business … family business … “old home week” from a recent pilgrimage to the Texas Panhandle. Each year I return to Vega, Texas for the Oldham County Roundup — world’s best barbecue, street […]

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I am having coffee on the balc, as I do every morning of course … a rich blend of coffee, Wi-Fi … and some good tunes on my Flaming Lips Pandora channel.  (I get frustrated when Pandora plays some Beck song or The Smashing Pumpkins … you know … some song I just hate … […]

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I won’t lie. I am still upset in my stomach. I might have thrown up in the back of my mouth just a tiny bit (as the original PingWi-Fi PingWare shirt on this site proudly states … LOL). I so-oooo dodged a bullet on July the Fourth. Walking down the street in sunny Delray Beach, […]

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After two of us Ping clan types paired up for an early morning jaunt to Tampa, we whipped into a McDonalds in Delray Beach, Fla., and ordered coffee and a steaming cup of Wi-Fi to go. The hotspot, served up by AT&T, served us quickly and I had my daily fix of e-mails before I […]

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I love life’s little coincidences. For instance, I didn’t even know that there was an International Swimming Hall of Fame until I saw a sign near downtown Fort Lauderdale printed with “International Swimming Hall of Fame 3 miles.” Did I mention the PingWi-Fi entourage jumped from The Dallas Mavericks World Championship celebration to South Florida […]

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Congrats to The Dallas Mavericks and to The Cuban, Mark Cuban.  What a fun ride!  Let’s do it again next year but, hey, leave the singing to Queen, okay? No one was more shocked than I at how excellent the crowd in Dallas behaved yesterday.  Hundreds of thousands of people came together in a miserably […]

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I had a good chat with a travel writer on Facebook the other day, and she commented that I must meet some interesting people. Well yes I do … but I should point out that she covers all of the backroads of The Texas Plains Trail … I bet she has some keepers too. Anywho […]

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Ah Sydney … As much as I love New Zealand, it seems the Aussies may have a leg up when it comes to Wi-Fi. Not only did the Australians greet us at the gate with duty-free, free shots of delicious Bailey’s cream (if you are into that sort of thing), there were about a half […]

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