A few more comments about my nice excursion into Central Park last Friday, my afternoon full of walking, enjoying the spring flowers and happy to be having a break from the usual busy schedule. Just wandering about, with no particular goals in mind. Just strolling on toward downtown, toward my own neighborhood. About halfway down the …
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Springtime in New York’s Central Park
Spring comes to New York’s Central Park For those of us who live in New York, there are plenty of times for quiet thought and life without the daily stresses that seem to characterize urban living in the minds of so many people. Indeed, the idea of our city as a loud, disruptive place probably …
Travel Writing: Freya Stark
Searchquotes.com Long before many of us started to put pen-to-paper (as the old saying goes), there were travel writers galore. Indeed, whole libraries are devoted to travel writing, so we amateurs are always on the lookout for good examples. One of my favorite authors, going back to my childhood (I have no idea who introduced …
Masai Mara (14): Sunday Elephant
Charles and I planned our final game drive for Sunday morning, since the Sekenani Gate, where we had entered the Masai Mara Game Research and from which we would leave, was quite some distance from the Sopa Lodge and it wouldn’t make sense to circle back around. So we decided I would check out of …
Masai Mara (12): Elephants
So perhaps it’s time to ‘fess up. If any readers of these posts have noticed a kind of lead-up, you’re right. There has been so much to write about, and so much to see and share, and since we’re all agreed that this is the experience of a lifetime for Mr. Guy (who ordinarily doesn’t …