Tag Archives: travel
A Tale of Two Portlands
Flannel shirts and hipster chic unite them both, but there’s a continent between them. TL;DR: Maine > Oregon.
A Beach Town, After the Season Ends
New England’s last true honky-tonk seaside resort empties out after summer’s done. Photographs of a snowy November day at Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
New Mexico: Revisiting the Land of Enchantment
Traveling again through an unforgettably beautiful land of clouds, mesas, chiles, and quiet.
Why I Hate Boats (It’s All Nova Scotia’s Fault)
The lasting effects of a particularly rough ride in a high-speed catamaran across the Gulf of Maine.
You Can’t Go Home Again – And Sometimes That’s a Good Thing
The changing face of a Southern city rediscovering itself.
Scandinavian Color: The Houses of Visby
Photographs of the colorful cottages of a medieval walled city in the Baltic Sea.
Visby: The Floating City
Traipsing through the medieval city of Visby during Sweden’s annual political convention reveals something about the soul of the country.
Cave Art of the Stockholm Metro
Stockholm has one of the most spectacular subway systems in the world, the T-Bana, which is quite saying something when you consider the marble palaces of Moscow and St. Petersburg, the concrete cathedrals of Washington, and the archaeological ruins of Athens and Mexico City. The system is billed as the longest art gallery in the […]
How to Eat a Hamburger in Sweden
The first meal we had in Stockholm – no, not at Ikea – was Swedish meatballs with mashed potatoes and lingonberries. The second was Max at T-Centralen. Founded in Northern Sweden in the late 1960s, Max is Sweden’s answer to McDonald’s. The name even sounds suspiciously similar. The chain hasn’t spread much beyond Sweden, with […]
I Found the Soul of Switzerland in a McDonald’s McGruyère
Because sometimes a sandwich isn’t just a sandwich. The trip from Zurich to Zermatt lasts three hours by train and climbs four thousand feet. It takes you from within twenty miles of the German border to within five miles of the Italian, though you wouldn’t know it by the rösti – a dish so ubiquitous […]
Eating San Francisco
There’s something about San Francisco. You sense it as soon as you get off the plane. Maybe it’s the weather – whatever that happens to be. Maybe it’s the constant horizon of old Victorians tumbling over hills like the backs of stegosauruses. Maybe it’s the yelps of sea lions, or, for a born-and-bred Easterner, the […]
Eating Miami
Miami during Art Basel is pure Fellini. Picture vacant models and their significantly shorter patrons parading around old factories in edgy parts of town. Picture the slow, interminable parade of rented Bentleys and Rolls Royces crawling across the causeways from Wynwood to the Beach. Picture reality stars knocking back glass after glass after glass of […]
Duck Pie 