An Entire Year of Following Summer
A day of travel and time for contemplation. The beginning of a year of living in the moment, following an intense period of planning, when it often seemed that we spent all our time living in the future as we laid the groundwork...
A Feasting Week in Palm Springs, California
If you are acquainted with any budding mid-century Desert Modernism Architectural Enthusiasts or Retro Hipster Rat Pack followers than chances are you have heard about the many charms of Palm Springs. Rated one of Frommers...
Arriving at Charles de Gaulle: Bienvenue en France!
CDG is as always, CDG: the Friday morning sun and crisp December air only point out, at least to me, the incredible ugliness of the building. A grunting security guard, stamping our passports as we quickly glide through customs,...
Overnight to Paris with Air Canada
Emails, phone calls and a defective driver’s seat belt add to the overall last minute panic as we finish a frantic pack and load the newly-returned body shopped car (someone went through a red light and right into John...
Hurtling Towards the Date Line: LA to Auckland, New Zealand
We started toward the airport today about 8:30 a.m. for a 1:35 p.m. flight. With 2 in the car, we got to use the carpool lane on the highways, which helped considerably. Got to the airport a bit earlier than anticipated, checked...
First Mornings: Auckland, New Zealand
Latitude: S36° Longitude: E174° Full Moon. We got to bed at about 2:30 a.m. Auckland time (5:30 a.m. L.A. time) and we’re up about 8:30 to seek out coffee and breakfast, feeling that hazy, thumping middle of the forehead...
Farewell to New Zealand
We drive into Auckland from Doubtless Bay. It takes two cars to handle the overflow of luggage that we have brought with us (not to mention that there are six people making the journey). We take everyone out for dinner to...
Day One: Exploring Sydney, Australia
S33° E151° We get up and start walking in Sydney – no plan, just wherever we end up. It is a beautiful, clear sunny day and we wander through Hyde Park, a glorious green space in the middle of Sydney, through what seems to be...
Day Two: Exploring Darling Harbour.
Downstairs with coffee and the papers by 8:20, we are up early today for breakfast…well, relatively early for the new us. The morning bustle on Oxford Street is persistent. We are organizing ourselves for a stroll and a wander:...
Suffering ‘Heavy Baggage Jokes’ Enroute to Adelaide, Australia
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