My first video post! This was so much fun that I’m sure I’ll be doing more of them. Enjoy! Continue reading
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Category Archives: Traveling Gay in the Big Straight World
A Place For Inspiration and Creation
Many have attempted the doomed practice of comparing various aspects of San Francisco and New York, usually finding focus within the context of food or the arts (e.g. quality of restaurants, genesis of trends) and ending with heated exchanges over who has the better this or that. The whole process sounds like so much fun I think I will try one of my own: which city provides a more productive environment for its denizen artists? Continue reading
One of the Worst Parts of the Great Recession: Not Traveling
My posts have been absent for a few months primarily due to my reluctance to face my current economic situation and mourning the death of my travel budget. Tiring of my sackcloth and ashes, I turn to writing again about where I’ve been if not where I’m going. Continue reading
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler Encore!
Happy Mardi Gras, Y’all!
Part II (continued from yesterday)
After natural action and human inaction devastated New Orleans, many have eulogized the city, calling it one of the greatest in the world. But most have not told us why New Orleans is such a unique and important place. Continue reading
Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler!
In honor of Mardi Gras, which begins tomorrow, and to continue to celebrate one of my favorite cities, I am reproducing a two-part article I wrote for The Traveler’s Pen website in 2007. I’m posting Part I today and Part II tomorrow. Continue reading
Close to Home
[Worldwide] travel is not compulsory. Great minds have been fostered entirely by staying close to home.
James Morris, “It’s OK to Stay Home” NY Times 30 Aug 85Given the current economic climate, travel moves up the list of luxuries and gets excised from many budgets entirely. But for those lucky enough to live in a vacation destination, such circumstance offer an opportunity to experience your city in a new way. Continue reading
Where is New York?
New York is nothing like Paris; it is nothing like London; and it is not Spokane multiplied by sixty, or Detroit multiplied by four.
E.B. White, Here is New York
About a decade ago, my partner and I began what has become a cherished tradition: spending Thanksgiving in New York with dear friends. Unlike what tends to happen as traditions over time become burdensome obligations, our annual trek to New York is one I look forward to all year. Continue reading
Looking Forward
New Year’s Eve has always been one of my least favored days of the year. I think its forced retrospective nature leaves me feeling melancholy. I don’t mind New Year’s Day, however; it brings out my natural inclination to plan, especially for travel. Continue reading
Hostile Territory
I have been reading a rather obscure travelogue from the 1930s entitled Ilf and Petrov’s American Road Trip, which documents the travels of two Soviet journalists across the Depression-era United States. The account is fairly objective and somewhat propaganda-free. As we have seen repeatedly since de Tocqueville, it seems we learn the most about our national character from outsiders. Continue reading
Istanbul Redux
I thought I would share with the readers of this space the first TGBSW article I wrote. It appeared originally online on The Traveler’s Pen website in April 2007. I am reproducing the article below. Enjoy! Continue reading