Coronavirus calendar: Quarantine dispatches (Month 2: April 2020)
“April is the cruelest month.” (The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot, 1922) Throughout March, a line from Hamilton kept playing in my mind: “The » Read more
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Pandemic pandemonium: scrambling the best laid travel plans (June 2020)
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 With the Audi Q5 packed as though we were never returning home, we headed northeast towards St. George, » Read more
Coronavirus countdown: Quarantine dispatches (Month 1: March 2020)
Over the years, especially since starting this blog, I’ve kept notes on what we were seeing, experiencing, thinking, feeling, reading, even eating, » Read more
Channel Islands, August 2019
August 20, 2019 Day 1: Santa Barbara Island Was it a good idea to take up cold water diving again? This question » Read more
Spring bustin’ out allover in NYC: April 2018 (Part 1)
Saturday, April 14, 2018 Spring can be particularly glorious in NYC. Probably the harshness of NY winters makes this contrast inevitable. This » Read more
Japan in winter, Steve Eilenberg
This was our first winter trip to Japan and we visited the coldest parts of the country. Often uncomfortably hot on our » Read more
Norway, September 2017 (Part 2-Svalbard)
Saturday, September 2, 2017 By our first morning aboard Antigua, a converted sailing vessel and our home for the next 9 days » Read more
Sedona Film Festival, February 2017
Friday, February 17 and Saturday, February 18, 2017 We had an epic, literally tempestuous, start to our annual Sedona film festival week » Read more
November 2016: Japan (Part 2: Tokyo)
Thursday, November 3, 2016: After taking leave of Kanazawa, it was time to pick up the pace and switch gears: on to » Read more
Québec City environs: Île d’Orléans and Montmorency Falls
On our recent trip to Québec, we managed without a car for several days before picking up a rental car for a » Read more