History Hound Travels

Presumably, you are like me, and you like to hear about destinations and cultures and peoples and cuisines from other real live people who have been traveled and experienced and seen and met and tasted those things. After all, a first hand report from a traveler is better than seventeen from someone just wanting to sell you a ticket, at least in my experience. Well, Sosauce Travel offers all that and then some.

In order to use the site effectively, you do have to register, but it is very quick and easy to do. that ask for your name and email, and a password, plus your birthday. Click on the link in the generated email, and begin to discover what the site has to offer. You can plan trips, read about trips other people have taken or even post about your own trips, so others can learn about the places you’ve been.

Sosauce is building a community of travelers, somewhat similar to what Ravelry is for fiber crafters. I find it interesting that the same internet that often gets in the way of basic human interaction now has so many sites that encourage it, based on like interests. Just like the clubs we used to join, bt now we never have to leave the living room or get dressed. That could be a good thing, for some of us!

How many of you think that shampoo is necessary to proper hygiene? What would you think if I told you that shampoo as we know it was not invented until the 1930s. Until then, people used soap, or sometimes less harsh ingredients. If you look at wiki, you can read more about early shampoos made with rice ash and conditioning with coconut oil.

Today, it is the ingredients in the shampoos that cause you to nee more shampoo. The silicones and dimethicones build up and have to be stripped out with chemicals and that dries the hair and makes it frizzy and flyaway so that you want to apply more silicones to tame it, and then the cycle just repeats itself. For as long as you let it.

You can stop the cycle by watching your ingredients, which the FDA requires to be listed on the bottle. If it ends in “cone” you probably don’t want it. Also, you can skip the glycol distearate. It’s a wax whose function is to make the shampoo pearlescent. Seriously.

And that picture of caulk up there? It’s to illustrate what silicone really is. That’s right. Silicone acts as a barrier to air and water. That means that if you already have dry hair, and you add silicone to it, you are making it even worse.

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Ever feel like Dorothy? I do. No matter where I go, I am always glad to be back home.

Here’s where I was, in downtown Orlando, near Church Street. We stayed at the Grand Bohemian. It looks a lot like a bordello. Not that I have ever been inside one. Maybe. One never knows.

The conference was a lot of fun, but I do have one small complaint. Downtown Orlando? It is the dead on Sunday evening. And also most of Saturday.

Completely dead. Except for one little place that I plan to talk about on Thursday on cassknits.com

It’s time for a little trip, ya’ll! I’m heading out later this week for a little networking, conferencing and vacationing. I’m not taking this laptop, since I can’t, so I won’t be talking to you again until next Tuesday. Ya’ll be good and don’t go anywhere I wouldn’t go!

We’ve come a long way, haven’t we? This phot s a replica of the first petroleum powered motorcycle, designed and built in Germany by Gottlieb Daimler and Wilhelm Maybach in 1885. An earlier version, powered by steam was (possibly) developed in America in 1867 by Sylvester Howard Roper. Hard to believe we’ve gone from something like that to being able to order Harley parts online in just over 100 years, huh?

I think motorcycles might have changed even more than cars, since their invention, and especially, they have branched out more. I mean, with automobiles you have about 3 or 4 different chassis, essentially, but with motorcycles……. it seems like each one is different. Taller, shorter, lighter, heavier, narrower, wider. Or maybe it is just the romance and intrigue of the motorcycles that makes me notice them more.

As usual, I borrowed my picture from wiki, and permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled “GNU Free Documentation License”.