Alan Irwin’s Blog

Hello dear friends and family. We are so pleased with your participation, truly amazed by your interest and mildly aghast at the drivel you choose to read. Good god, don’t you have anything more important like the New York Times, The Nation, some NPR transcripts, a good book or your Facebook page? Okay, before we [...]

What a creative, crazy, enthusiastic group we’ve gathered here today! We’re truly touched by your participation and research efforts. We’re also impressed that those of you who came into this knowing the answer kept guard so nicely. Now, a few of you have asked for extra hints and more clues; and very early on, someone [...]

Dear Friends, Uh oh. A few of you seem to have dropped out and we suspect there are some who are waiting to do a last-second-eBay bid/guess sort thing. Maybe it’s time we answered a couple of questions and reviewed a clue that seems to have slipped by many of you. To answer Sylvia’s question, [...]

Greetings fellow travelers and virtual travel gamers! We’re very pleased with the entries so far. Quite impressed, actually. Keep ‘em coming. Remember, you can enter as many times as you’d like. We might even consider throwing in an extra prize for perfect attendance, persistence, or sheer volume. We’re hoping that a few of you might [...]

Glad to see you’re all so easily distracted from whatever you should be doing and that you’re playing along. Excellent responses, all. Congratulations to Laura for being the first to respond with “Cambodia.” Been there, done that, incorrect answer, but she does get bonus for being first to buzz in. Bonus points, too, to Diane [...]