Category Travel
Eclipse!
This weekend I started a new chapter of my travel career with a trip specially planned to watch an eclipse—specifically the annular eclipse. I flew to Salt Lake City yesterday, met up with Amanda who had flown in from Denver, and then drove the hours south to the small town of Richfield, UT, where we […]
At the Races in Meridian
Ten years ago Peggy joined me in New York for her first time at the Met Opera. This week we (accidentally) commemorated that event when we both happened to be in Idaho at the same time and she invited me to the speedway in Meridian. It’s quite possibly the most redneck thing I’ve ever done […]
The last of Banff! Vistas and rivers and icefields… in the rain
Right on cue with the weather forecast, the clouds rolled in overnight and today was dark and cloudy and more wet than not. So it was a good thing we’d done our big hiking day yesterday. On deck for today: the Icefields Parkway that runs through Banff National Park and adjacent Jasper National Park. Along […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 