Ode to a day when Train Travel ruled the world — its stations overfilled with people, smoking cigarettes. High ceilings were built — spectacularly high ceilings to dim the noise of so many people and […]
“Ah, remember the nights we would linger over brandy at ‘EAT’?” writes DraperyFalls on Reddit. Well you can’t eat (or drink) anymore at EAT! Because it’s permanently Closed. The main photo of this article is one […]
“Galveston, oh Galveston!” sang Glen Campbell, one of the great guitar players and singers in history. And a great actor in True Grit. Campbell was a “Session Musician” before he became famous — part of […]
If you travel a lot, every place starts to look like every place else, with rare exceptions. Most cities seem the same; even Beijing China starts to look like Brooklyn. Not New Orleans. New Orleans […]
The Hotel Commune by the Great Wall is one of the amazing hotels in the world. It is on an estate of land an hour and a half outside of Beijing, in the mountains by […]
What’s the best Deli in NYC? Tough question — NYC has THOUSAND’S of Deli’s. This was the question posed to Knick fans by Knick star Julius Randle‘s wife Kendra in April 2024. She asked that […]
Longtime Yankee broadcasting legend John Sterling was known as a “man about town” by those in the broadcast industry that knew him well. When he was not broadcasting Yankee games on the radio for over […]
On the way back from Dallas driving up I-81 at midnight in southern Virginia in a snow storm that dropped 8 inches of snow (January 2024) — with family in tow in a Ford Expedition […]
People either love Paris or are disappointed in Paris. A lot depends on what you’re expecting, what you experience, and for how long you are there. It is important if you are traveling to Paris, […]
Not Road Trips — Road Drives. Places to take a cruise in your car in the USA. Scenic routes. Historic routes. Famous main drags like the one in the film American Graffiti, which is actually […]
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