Travel
The Road Not Taken
What would have become of the Joads if they didn’t flee the dust bowl and travel West to California? What if Jay and Daisy weren’t driving back to West Egg on that fateful night? And how else would pseudo literary high school boys impress alternative girls if Sal and Dean hadn’t been so debauched and […]
12Jun2008 | Jillian | 3 comments | ContinuedPhotonotes from a 30th Birthday in Cancun
Jillian planned a fantastic mini-vacation from our lives (which, incidentally, look an awful lot like a vacation, anyway) to celebrate my 30th birthday in Cancun. Though we only spent a few days, we had an absolute ball, and I entered my third decade in style. A few quick photo notes:
Pre-check in at the Westin, a lovely hotel […]
29May2008 | Malcolm | 8 comments | ContinuedI wouldn’t say I’m through with you but I’ll tell you when I’m gone
No, silly, it’s not the clap; it’s a different kind of wanderlust. I have an itch. An urge. A desire to roam if I want to. Maybe because it’s getting so hot you want to lay naked under white sheets all day and alternately sip cucumber juice in the salty, salty ocean or maybe it’s […]
12May2008 | Jillian | 3 comments | Continued…On a Noontime Plane to Portland
Depart Merida: 12:05
Depart Mexico City: 4: 30
Depart Houston: 9:20
Arrive Portland: 11:59
I hope I’m not misinformed about the time.
42 Hours in Playa del Carmen
We have been awfully busy lately, dealing with cars and launching new websites and haven’t had a chance to get away. So when my dear old high school friend Tadd texted from the Atlanta airport that he would be in Playa for the weekend I knew I couldn’t miss the trip. Because Jeep’s out sick […]
5Mar2008 | Jillian | 0 comments | ContinuedThis Time Last Week, kind of a koan
I only marginally believe that America exists when I am not there. No place does, really, to my feeble mind. I can barely process all that is happening in time and space immediately around me at present. So, the notion that one Sunday ago, a mere 7 days in the past, we had just left […]
13Jan2008 | Jillian | 4 comments | ContinuedAll of the People, All of the Time
You did your worst, America. You had us in your clutches yet again. And you beat us fair and square. We vowed to pace ourselves, to act our age, fulfill obligations, and generally be proactive members of the USA for two weeks. And what did we do? We strolled old neighborhoods, gave in to every […]
10Jan2008 | Jillian | 0 comments | ContinuedGod Bless You, Laura Kauffman
On an unseasonably warm early afternoon in January two young Americans missed their return flight to Mexico by minutes. Dejected, they returned to the previous night’s refuge, MK’s Brooklyn apartment. The copied key sat glistening on the table two flights up. The sorry two sat among their suitcases on the low stoop and tried to […]
10Jan2008 | Jillian | 0 comments | Continued
