On Tuesday first thing, we moved rooms, a nicer room for the vacation portion of our stay. Although the shower leaks like a sieve. We took the cable car towards North Beach, so that we could get focaccia for breakfast, and visit City Lights books, and generally be tourists. The focaccia was from this hole […]
On day two in the big city, I started off doing non-touristy things and then ventured into the heart of tourist-y New York. Meaning that I started off with a walk around the reservoir in Central Park, one loop on the reservoir path, and another on the Bridle Path, which despite its name, was free […]
I’m off for a little vacation all on my own – two nights in New York city staying with a friend, then two nights in the Hudson River Valley staying with another friend. Pictures first, words later. I guess it’s later – Saturday on the train going up the Hudson River. I got into the […]
Sometimes I think the worst part about getting old is not being able to sleep. My normal pattern for the last few years, since I’ve been over 55, has been waking up every two or three hours – on a really good night it’s four hours; once in a long while I’ll sleep five hours […]
… to O’Hare. Our AFS student signed up for a trip to California, and was required by the travel service to fly out of O’Hare, so rather than getting up at 3:00 AM to get her to the airport in time for an 8:10 Saturday morning flight, we drove down on Friday night, and got […]
Our last day in Philadelphia, we went to the new Barnes Museum. I know there is a faction who believe that the collection should never have been wrested from Dr. Barnes cold dead hands – there’s even a documentary about it – but honestly, Barnes was such a control freak. He wanted to utterly […]