It's that time of the year when I get itchy for adventure.
We're due to visit my in-laws in the Outer Banks this summer. We usually break up the trip down there with adventures in coastal towns in Delaware and romps through the mountains of Virginia. The New York Times has some great websites to help me plan.
They recommend Designtripper. I need to spend some quantity time on that website.
National Geographic's profile of the Outer Banks is fabulous.
I want to drink a beer here.
Architecture/Travel Quiz - Where is this?
UPDATE: Christiana wins. It's Düsseldorf, Germany. This is one of Frank Gehry's office buildings. From the article in this Sunday's NYT Travel Magazine.
I'm spending the day organizing photographs, making albums, and learning how to use Photoshop. This is an eye candy kind of day. And a time consuming sort of day. When did making a simple family photo album become such a time suck?
Last week, the gang and I took a five day trip to Puerto Rico. We've never been south of Florida, so this was a great adventure. There were lots of first time experiences - a swim up pool bar, a drive through a rain forest, a sun burn in February.
At the same time, there was a lot of familiarity. I lived in Washington Heights for 12 years, so nearly everyone we talked to had been a neighbor at one time or another. You lived on 181st Street? No way! We lived on 187th!
The kids enjoyed the beach and the pool. Ian ate tostones, and Jonah had empanadas. We explored San Juan.
Of course, adventures are limited with kids. They do like things safe and comfortable. It would be splendid to go back at some point without them and travel around in a jeep. The top down. Hair sunbleached and wild. Visiting remote sea villages and eating grilled fish that just flopped out of the ocean.
We limped home from the horror of JFK airport late last night. It was a lovely trip to Puerto Rico, but the trip home was brutal.
Right now, the washing machine is humming. The mail has been sorted. (Hello, Paychecks!) I downloaded a new version of Photoshop and have started playing with photographs. I'll be back properly on Monday. In fact, I'm itchy to get back to work.
I can't stop thinking about our upcoming trip to Puerto Rico. Adventure! The travel section of the Times made want to visit 45 other places, too.
This is Provincetown at around 11:00. That's why the streets are so clear. Later, the streets become packed with tourists and performers. I like the calm before the storm.
We were rather pleased that this trip to Cape Cod didn't end with Steve in the emergency room due to an acute case of gout.
FYI...Lots of lobster + beer + beer +beer = gout
Out here in Jersey, people love to announce their wealth by the creative usage of Greek columns on their homes. Also marble fountains, circular driveways, and statues of David. Preferably that's all happening at the same time on one home. That's how we roll out here. These are MY people.
So, it was a bit jarring to pull onto Cape Cod and see nothing but tasteful shingles, short homes, and gardens. Where are the cathedral ceilings, man?
Either there are no Italians on the Cape or they have really good zoning laws.
I'm going with the good zoning laws. So, why don't more towns have these strict zoning laws that mandate that an area should have a uniform look? Wouldn't that increase the property values of a town?
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