So it was like that, you know? Just Dusty (geddit?!). Windy, fiercely windy, a lot of dust. And then it all died off and turned ambient and Conrad Hall caught the setting rays like in Day of the Locust. (So,…
Anyone remember Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom? Marlin Perkins stayed well back and would say things like “watch Jim as he approaches that lion.” And Jim Fowler would do something theoretically dangerous. Today I could have taken Marlin’s job. …
It was Thursday. On a Greek Island. So we went to a beach. We started at Papafragas, a rock beach eroded by time and surf into caves, arches, and eerie outcrops. It’s virtually an Instagram outpost, and if you don’t…
Our plush luxe digs are owned by a local family who have “rooms” geared for locals immediately next door. Instead of advertising them “on the beach” they note each “hardly abstains so much as five meters.” Oh to abstain so…
Good Morning Milos Instagrammers make everything The Top. In a cheap and self-serving attempt to miraculously enhance my influencer status, we decided to do the Instagram-Tik-Tok-Facebook-My Space (!) Top Three Beaches on Milos. Our day started early. The cock crows…
Monday morning. 24 degrees. Or 27. Something hot. We were out of the hotel early, 6:40 a.m. or so, and the airport was HOPPING. Crazy busy. We navigated through check-in, then fast track security, then duty free (Schengen zone duty…
To withstand relocation successfully. Is that a subtle lexicographer’s dig at airports? Although everything has changed nothing has changed. The harried scheduling, the packing lists, the gels in small sizes in Ziploc bags, the packing, unpacking, dressing, undressing, the lining…
Should that Lou Reed quote read instead “I don’t like nostalgia (unless it’s mine)”? But it is sort of this trip,it is sort of this travel diary blog. I wonder if he said it sober? I mean, I’d like to…
The picture at top, Florine Stettheimer’s Cathedrals of Broadway, 1929, (cropped by WordPress, I’m not clever enough to know how to prevent that irritating preset), part of four “cathedral” paintings, I only came across by accident: In the interest of…
What a glorious fall day. I cut through Central Park to the Upper East side; my ticket to the Met Cloisters yesterday gave me three days of visits to the Met. Today, en route to the Breuer at Madison and…