See Also: My Blog Archives: January 2008Posted: 01:06 PM ET, January 31, 2008I’m the commissioner of a fantasy football league in my town. One thing has remained constant since it began four years ago—I haven’t won.
Not since that first, smoky draft where Mr. Priest Holmes was my No. 1 pick and led me to the No. Read more
Posted: 12:15 AM ET, January 17, 2008Today I saw a brilliant tobacco field, watched my co-worker learn how to roll a cigar, ate more than my fill and saw the biggest collection of cigar ashes I have ever witnessed.
We started at La Aurora, the oldest cigarmaker in the Dominican Republic. Read more
Posted: 06:25 PM ET, January 15, 2008I spent the day looking at tobacco fields and cigar factories here in Santiago. It was a bright, warm and sunny day, as this is the heart of tobacco growing season in the Dominican Republic.
Before I left on this trip, I asked you for questions that you would like answered in my blogs, which will appear all week here on www. Read more
Posted: 11:39 PM ET, January 14, 2008There’s something about that first glimpse of a palm tree, that first smell of the air, the initial shock of feeling warmth in the middle of the winter that tells you you’re back in the tropics. It hit me today as I walked off the plane at the Santiago airport. Read more
Posted: 12:27 PM ET, January 07, 2008This is the time of year my cigar travels get into full swing. Winter in New York means tobacco season in the Caribbean and Central America, and a week from today I’ll be stomping my boots in Santiago, Dominican Republic, looking at tobacco in the fields and watching cigars being rolled in the city’s myriad cigar factories. Read more
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