We left the hotel this morning and headed into the city. Toronto is huge. The highways are six lanes in each direction, all clogged with commuting cars. The city blocks are lined with stores and restaurants and people of every imaginable type and nationality. There's construction everywhere. Toronto is noisy and busy and blustery. Winter… Continue reading 11 minutes til midnight
Category: Travel
Toronto road trip, the soundtrack
"Urgent" ~ Foreigner "Lyin' Eyes" ~ The Eagles "Baby Can I Hold You" ~ Tracy Chapman "Hurting Each Other" ~ Carpenters "For Lovin' Me" ~ Gordon Lightfoot "Break it to Them Gently" ~ Burton Cummings "Easy" ~ The Commodores "Bat Out of Hell" ~ Meatloaf "American Woman" ~ The Guess Who "Two of Us" ~… Continue reading Toronto road trip, the soundtrack
Riding the night bus
I'm writing this post on a bus and this is definitely a first for me. Not riding a bus, no. The writing part I mean. I've ridden this bus (complete with wi-fi and dumb movie) plenty. I have an almost Pavlovian response to this bus because it takes me to Boston, to the airport, to… Continue reading Riding the night bus
Boston diary
We had an open weekend, so we went down to Boston to be with family. My sister lives there. Dad and his wife were visiting from Florida. We buzzed down to do what we do in the city: walk our feet off, look at city things, and eat like there's no tomorrow. It was a… Continue reading Boston diary
Laying down a perfect memory
You know how sometimes a day goes just the way you imagined? Or maybe not just the way you imagined, but even better than that? I had one of those days, last summer, when we went to see Nick Lowe in concert. I thought I might write about it then, but the days got away… Continue reading Laying down a perfect memory
Still life with baked goods
I knew the trip was going to be good when Cindy suggested we meet in Portland, Maine, travel up the coast, ferry across Penobscot Bay, and land at Nebo Lodge Inn on North Haven Island for a weekend in July. Long-distance friends who haven't seen each other in years, we were casting around for a… Continue reading Still life with baked goods
52 Photos ~ This is what I found
~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This photo is in response to this week's theme for the 52 Photos Project. You should participate, too! Read about how it works here. You can see a gallery of everyone's photos for this week's theme here. To see a list of all my blog posts for this project, go here.
Holday lights, part 1
On our way out to Michigan this December, we stopped for the night in Niagara Falls, Ontario. City of lights, mist, honeymooners, casinos, and steak houses. It's not our usual type of haunt, but we discovered by accident four years ago, on a similar trip, when we were in search of a room and found… Continue reading Holday lights, part 1
Italian Folktales ~ Day 13 (July 7, 2011), Venice
We woke to the sound of sweeping, and when we went out, we stepped into a sparkling city of alleyways, piazzas, and canals. The first thing on our agenda was to grab a quick breakfast (fruit, water, and bread) at the shop around the corner from our hotel, and then proceed to the Palazzo Ducale… Continue reading Italian Folktales ~ Day 13 (July 7, 2011), Venice
