The Reluctant Traveler

Chronicles of a man who married a travel junkie.

My Books
I Married a Travel Junkie (GemmaMedia, Boston, MA).
I Married a Travel Junkie (Amazon books, Kindle Edition).
Mens et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA).
Mens et Mania: The MIT Nobody Knows (Amazon books, Kindle Edition).
The Pond God and Other Stories (Front Street Press).
The Best Healthcare Money Can't Buy


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Interesting facts about travel

Travel and travail are etymologically identical.

Q. What do you call someone who is constantly trying to gain weight?
A. Indefatigable.

Q. What do you call someone who is constantly trying to lose weight?
A. Undefatigable.

Three of Harvard Law School's Gropius dorms are called Story Hall, Shaw and Holmes. They surround John Safer's statue Judgment. They are also anagrams. The first is shy or tall; the second is wash; the third is shmole. Your job, should you wish to accept it, is to find out what "shmole" means.



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Samuel Jay Keyser
I spend my time writing, playing jazz trombone and, I'm sorry to say, traveling.
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