Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category
Vicarious Travel
Posted in Advertising, Art, Aviation, Travel on August 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Cupids
Posted in Photography, Travel, War on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“The suite we inherited from the Nazis posessed a czarist magnificence that dazzled us. Cupids swung from the chandeliers. Cherubs winged their way across the murals in the ceiling. The rooms were so filled with tables covered with vases, lamps with china bases, inkstands of Ural Mountain stone, and ash trays mounted on the backs [...]
Ziplock
Posted in Travel on April 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’m in the security line at the Syracuse airport. A security person has a woman’s suitcase open and is looking at a jumble of toiletries. She asks the woman, “Do you have a ziplock bag?” “No.” She asks again. “Do you have a ziplock bag?” “No.” The security person takes a large bottle of shampoo [...]
Silver Arrow
Posted in Art, Literature, Mail, Postal History, Travel on December 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A poster by Adolphe Mouron Cassandre (1901-1968) for Aéropostale (1918-1932) a French airline which carried mail, passengers, French culture and influence to Spain, Africa and South America. Among its daring pilots was writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry who described his experiences in Vol de Nuit, translated into English as Night Flight.
Jackie Steves’ Travel Blog
Posted in Literature, Travel on July 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Travel guru Rick Steves’ daughter, Jackie, has the most delightful travel blog.
On Travel
Posted in Literature, Travel on May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Allow me to introduce myself — first negatively. “No landlord is my friend and brother, no chambermaid loves me, no waiter worships me… No round of beef or tongue or ham is expressly cooked for me, no pigeon-pie is especially made for me, no hotel advertisement is personally addressed to me, no hotel room tapestried [...]
