Posted in Three-fer Friday on Jan 29th, 2010
Looking at art is always nice. Well, usually. Spending time with an artist who created work you like or love? Well, that’s a treat beyond belief. Time slows down and speeds up and your synapses start firing off like crazy. Things just shift a little to the left. Here, some artists we’ve been lucky enough [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 27th, 2010
Yes, law and order and restrictions on drinking in public and open container laws have their place. I mean, without all that, the U.S. would be like one giant post-frat party college campus. But, now and again, it’s so nice to leave all classy and elegant behavior behind and walk down the street with a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2010
Anybody know what the usual career trajectory is for a lasso expert? It’s not something I ever figured I’d think about but a travel-related coincidence brought the question on.
Last February, I spent some time at the Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson, Arizona. One highlight of the trip–and there were many–was lasso expert Loop Rawlins’ one-man [...]
Posted in Do, Three-fer Friday on Jan 22nd, 2010
The phrase popped into my head, in Roberta Flack’s voice, and hunkered down, becoming a solid earworm. “The first time ever I saw this place.” It seemed like a good title for a Three-fer but for the life of me, I couldn’t nail down what we should write about to fit the title. So, rather [...]
No, no .. she’s not dead or hunched over a toilet (as far as I know). She’s in Las Vegas (Viva!) and her laptop seems to have had too much fun … it’s gone nonfunctional, and writing a post for you in the hotel business just isn’t feasible. So until she is back home this [...]
If you could live anywhere in America, where would you live? Atop a mountain in Colorado? By the beach in California? Nestled among lakes and trees in Wisconsin? In a small town? A big city? Los Angeles? New York City? Oxford, Mississippi? Providence, Rhode Island?
I think about that a lot when I travel, both where [...]
Posted in Three-fer Friday on Jan 15th, 2010
So this whole Flyover America thing kicked off a year ago. A whole year. One of the best bits about writing Flyover America is, post posting, waiting for the comments to come in. The back and forth with all of you is just great fun (and you crank up our I-want-to-see-that! in a big [...]
I’ve never been a huge fan of Remington and Russell, the brand names in Western art. Oh, I recognize their importance and talents, but their cowboys ‘n’ Indians artwork strikes me as kitsch, and not my favorite flavor.
So I was lukewarm to the idea of Western art until I visited the Whitney Galleries at the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 11th, 2010
Gift shops and grocery stores. When traveling, both are musts for me. The first cause, ok, I’m a trinket whore with a fierce shopping habit and the second cause I don’t think there’s any better place to find out how people live their daily lives.
But, Louisiana’s keen on The Trinity so it just makes sense [...]
Posted in Discuss, Do, Meet, See, Three-fer Friday on Jan 8th, 2010
Our calendars are (nearly) bare, waiting to be filled with this year’s adventures. But now we wrestle with the eternal conundrum of travel planning: Return to a place we have loved or explore a place we’ve always wanted to see? Both types of trip have merit. (Don’t you get a strange little thrill when you [...]
