This site documents my love affair with travel. Initially the content is my travel blogs from out on the road, visits to countries near and far and even some American road tripping. With time, I hope to include more details about the places I either have returned to again and again or places I long to visit once more. To be fair, there are rare places I visit and wouldn’t go back. Through travel I’ve very much learned to appreciate the amazing beauty of the world around us. Hopefully you’ll either be entertained by my tales or maybe inspired to travel yourself!
In the disclaimer category, most of these posts were written while traveling in internet cafes or some even on my iPhone, so there are typos, etc. Rarely have I had the chance to go back and truly edit my tales on the road, so I present them to you warts and all but with much love.
Start Spreading The News – I’m Leaving Today
Okay, I lie a little, I’m leaving tomorrow, and it’s not New York bound but a New York departure. Still, those lyrics have been in my head all evening. And I honestly can’t decide whether it’s a happy or sad departure. I think we’ll call it bittersweet. There’s certainly a side of me that’s looking forward to sleeping in my own bed and not feeling like I need to get up and out the door to explore each day. But there’s always a little sadness when a journey, however short, concludes. I’ve got an incomplete project awaiting my return, and I’ve made myself promise not to begin the photos from this trip until I’ve finished that project, so hopefully that will be enough incentive for me to crack down and complete it. I know there are photos both from Quebec … Continue reading
Lights Are Bright on Broadway
Ah, another day of walking my feet off! The blisters and shin splints are cursing my name, but they are also gradually getting quieter. I think this is primary evidence that I have not walked nearly enough lately. Granted one doesn’t have to go from zero to sixty… Oh well! I don’t have a ton of interesting news. There’s only so many ways to describe ambling from one location to another or wandering aimlessly. I guess I had a couple of targets. I went back down to the Flatiron Building. I did say I was obsessed with it, didn’t I? I had a thought to take some long exposures of it with my neutral density lens. Only the photo geeks got past that sentence, so suffice it to say I took more photos, and then I wandered up Broadway. I … Continue reading
New York City By Foot
I very nearly stayed off the trains today. it wasn’t so much a desire to stay away from them as no desire to go too terribly far. Plus, I rather like the idea of walking and seeing what there is to see above ground more so than under. It was another of those late start days. That was pretty much a given seeing a movie late and walking back after. In fact, just all that walking period yesterday. But when I finally got moving, I had lunch/breakfast and really didn’t stop moving for quite some time. I don’t have a ton of photos to show for it, but I enjoyed the walk up until a point. I definitely have gotten a clearer idea of my way around this part of the city. I walked down to the Flatiron Building. I … Continue reading
Getting Lost in New York City – There’s an App for that!
After yesterday’s travel adventure, it didn’t take much of a crystal ball to foresee a late start to the day. But it was a nice late sleep and then I woke up to a fantastic day in New York. The temps today were close to 60 degrees! It was like they brought back fall just for little old me! I snagged lunch and set off for the Statue of Liberty. When I was here back in 2009, I saw it from a tour boat and the Staten Island Ferry, but the day I’d intended to go out to see it in person, it poured rain. This was my next shot. Looking at the weather, it’s also the nicest day in the forecast while I’m here. And thus began my first foray into the city. Compared to last time, I was … Continue reading
Au Revoir Quebec, Hello Big Apple
Wow, what a day! All I can say is that getting to your intended destination in the end is worth it, I can’t complain, but I’ll tell you the tale anyway! First off is the admission that in one way I’m not a good traveler. I have anxiety the night before flying. I’m not scare of flying, I’m scared of missing my flight. It’s happened a couple of times, probably has to everyone who flies enough, and in the end, it has always worked out, but it’s still a phantom in the closet when I go to bed the night before a flight. I got perhaps four good hours of sleep last night, and then it was up every hour (or less) to look at the clock. When it finally was time, I sprung into motion. I had lunch at … Continue reading
