The best way to see Chicago skyscrapers might just be from a gondola on the ferris wheel at Navy Pier.

John and I ascended to see the late Friday afternoon skyline, which John perhaps would have preferred to see from the ground,
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My charming friend John, who now resides in Chicago, suggested Avec on Tuesday night, which was the perfect complement to a full day of interesting talks about digital media tools with national journalism leaders.

John and I both marveled at Avec’s focaccia (ricotta is inside, I think) that was crispy and light. Avec maintains [...]

“The hypnagogic is that first stage of sleep that we drift into, when our bodies jerk and we startle ourselves accidentally,” Kate wrote on Amanda’s blog a few days ago.
That hypnagogic state is the one I often feel I’m in while visiting San Francisco—not that I wanted to wake from a dreamy chocolate tart [...]

On Thursday, I sat in a converted U.S. Army building in San Francisco surrounded by designers, deep thinkers, and other brainiacs, thanks to my friend Amit Gupta (he started the Jelly casual coworking movement and runs the photography newsletter of awesomeness Photojojo) who gave me his extra ticket.
To be more precise, I actually “won” [...]

Tuesday morning began in Miami, where I rose at 4 to catch a 6 o’clock to Dallas, then a 9 o’clock to Denver with plenty of time for the RoadFood warrior within to eat cheese enchiladas at Jack-n-Grill where they have “hot daze and chile nights.”

Refusing to choose between, I startled my server (who called [...]