Travel Archive

A necessity: a charger for your iPhone - Does your phone lose power at warp speed? Like if you use Google Maps. One drive from my apartment in upper Manhattan to the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn, and

Anthelios Sunscreen with Mexoryl - When our daughter was too young for school and we worked at home, travel meant Paris. These trips were free-form, but they all had the same ending --- we stocked

Filson Duffle Bags - A friend invited me to a Yankees game. “I know it’s warm today, but it will be 20 degrees cooler at the Stadium tonight.” She’s had season tickets for 20

French Notebooks - From the New York Times: "A growing body of evidence shows that over all, college students learn less when they use computers or tablets during lectures. They also tend to

Homestead Inn/Thomas Henkelmann - UPDATE: TheDailyMeal.com has named The Homestead Inn the 10th best French restaurant in the United States. There are weeks so intense that, come Friday, all you want is to hibernate The

iKlear: Apple’s cleaning solution for iPhones, iPads, iMacs - When I worked at AOL, the insider wisdom was: Don’t be an early adopter. We love them, but early adopters are guinea pigs. Stay one version behind. Not that

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston -

KOR ONE Water Bottle - Everybody knows about the massive floating island of plastic --- three times the size of France --- floating between California and Hawaii. Everybody knows 1.4 billion tons of mostly plastic

Louise Fili: Brilliantly designed Italian pencils, gift cards, and more - When most people think of “style,” they think of fashion designers. I think of Louise Fili. You’ve seen her designs everywhere and every day: Williams-Sonoma, Sarabeth’s, Tiffany & Co., Paperless

myCharge HubPlus Portable Charger External Battery Pack - SHOPPING ON AMAZON: The first business model of this site is Amazon. You start here, buy something there, Butler gets a commission. And not just on the item reviewed. Anything

Portable Power for your phone - A phone in the pocket for a full day is a problem --- the charge runs out fast. The solution: an AmazonBasics Portable Power Bank. This device, which is about

Water Bottles - “What is Evian spelled backwards?” asked George Carlin. That used to be a joke. Now, with a drought in the West and our water infrastructure crumbling, it’s an accusation. How do you

Weekend Butler: The woman in the picture, a major breakthrough in kitchen cleanup, and… Paris in the spring - THE IMAGE: MÉMORIAL DES MARTYRS DE LA DÉPORTATION There were 200,000 French citizens, almost all of them Jews, deported by the Vichy government during World War II. If you've visited Notre