Whenever I visit someplace new, I ask myself, “Could I live here?” Even if it’s a lovely place, it may not be a place I want to wake up every day. Case in point: I love New York. But I love visiting New York. I couldn’t live there. Not unless I was was so enormously wealthy that I could afford to live, say, overlooking the park. … Continue reading Philly: More Than Cheesesteaks
If you’ve never visited my little corner of cyberspace before, welcome! If you have, thank you for coming back. Things probably look a little different from the last time, since I finally spent longer than five minutes trying to figure out how to feature things on the home page. Don’t get too used to things, though: Chances are high that there will be future changes, and “featured” articles … Continue reading Welcome!
My father is originally from Milton, Delaware. On the last Saturday of every June, there’s a family reunion of sorts (more like a big family picnic) at one of the state parks. I went once when I was about 9, way back in the ’70s. The next time wasn’t until 2012, when I joined a cousin who knows even fewer people on that side of … Continue reading Delmarva and Cape May
Espen visited New Orleans back in 2013, when he went in July (!) with his friend Inge as part of a road trip across America. (How two Norwegians survived the heat that time a year is a mystery.) Of all the cities he has visited while living in the states — and there have been many — New Orleans remains one of his absolute favorites. I … Continue reading Bon Temps and All That Jazz
Where the Road Takes You 