What’s a trip to New York without a horror story to take back to Flyoverland? Our trip had been without significant incident; we hadn’t lost the 11-year-old in the crowd in Times Square or ended up on the wrong side of a subway door from her, and we’d even enjoyed a bucolic day at the [...]
New York is so complex that it can embrace and celebrate both the Populist and the Power Elite and unabashedly claim both as its own without feeling the faintest hint of inconsistency. As you keep pace with the throngs on the street you can within the space of a few steps, literally rub elbows with [...]
One of the things we’ve always noticed about New York is how busy everyone is. Everywhere you go, everywhere you look, and even at the edges of your vision when you’re looking, people are working. Trucks are being driven and unloaded, sidewalks are being swept, goods are being stacked on shelves, other goods are being [...]
Friday was Day One of this trip for Night Visions and I and our youngest daughter, Patience, and it was mostly spent in travel to New York and in waiting in various lines at the Chinese Embassy for visas for a trip NV and Patience are taking later this summer. I believe I read somewhere [...]
