Author Archives: JJD
We made it!
Twenty-two hours of travel is all it takes to go from Seattle to New Delhi. We stepped off the plane into warm, muggy air full of smoke and were greeted by an exuberant welcome from giant “namaste” hands on the wall. Customs was a breeze (we did the legwork for visas online ahead of time) […]
Off to India!
Holy cow, this year’s big trip is here already — we’re off to explore the Subcontinent! Getting there is part of the adventure. We left Friday morning and after 14.5 hours in the air, we touched down in Dubai. It’s super impressive to see this city that has basically been built from scratch in only […]
Old table new
Last summer I stopped at a garage sale down the street and bought a couple of chairs and a little wooden table to use on my roof deck. I spent $20 for the three items, and I figured that I’d sell them myself or take them to Goodwill once I’d replaced them with “real” furniture. […]
Booked!
Can you guess where we’re going in March? Needless to say, I can hardly wait.
New York – A three-star last day
Like all good things, our trip came to a close on Saturday. But our flights were late enough that we still had the bulk of the day to play — and play we did! Nicole, a good friend of mine from Kennedy Center days, recently moved from DC to New York, so we began our […]
New York – Towers and windows and sign language on New Year’s Day
New Year’s Day is typically pretty dull. The parties from the night before are over, and although it’s technically a holiday, it’s one that you celebrate while knowing that you’ve still got a long, greyish stretch of winter before the distant summer. That said, if you’re willing to get up early(ish), New Year’s Day is a great day to […]
Happy New Year!
Ringing in the New Year in style from the Big Apple. Here’s to 2016!
New York – New Year’s Eve
New Year’s Eve was the piece de resistance of our trip, the day that we had all been waiting for. And so naturally we stayed up until 2am the night before and woke up groggy and a little bit out of sorts. That was okay, though, because all the action wouldn’t start until the evening […]
New York – Theatre Day!
We knew that the bulk of our first full day in New York would be spent sitting in dark theaters — we had tickets to both matinee and evening performances — so we decided to start off with a hearty Belgian brunch at Le Pain Quotidien . . . Belgian hot chocolate, which you make […]
Hello, New York!
On Tuesday morning we left sunny San Juan and flew to New York. I spent most of the 3.5-hour flight zonked out beneath my eye-mask (our dissolute vacation habits of getting roughly 5 hours of sleep each night were catching up to me) and landed at the Big Apple bright eyed and ready for the […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 