Posts in category ”Travel”
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Back in Bilbao
My appetite seems to move in mysterious ways. I suddenly find myself back in Bilbao, a decade later. It feels nice to once again roam the Basque territories in search of the perfect pintxos.
20 years without the Twin Towers
Twenty years. Long enough for a generation to grow up knowing September 11 only as history. Long enough for airport security to become an elaborate ritual involving belts, shoes, liquids and the quiet surrender of dignity.
Finding art by Jaume Plensa
There are artists whose work belongs inside spotless museums, guarded by polite security staff who become strangely nervous if you lean in too close. Then there’s Jaume Plensa.
Memories of Jubilee Gardens
Some cities have a place that keeps pulling me back. Not the famous landmark. Not the postcard view. Just a patch of ground that somehow connects.
Are you a flashpacker?
Travel is the eternal struggle between packing light and bringing enough electronics to operate a small NATO command post. Pam Mendel recently photographed the contents of her luggage for a trip to Antarctica, perhaps inspired by Frank Chimero’s own exercise in exposing his worldly possessions to the Internet.
The joy of road trips
The open road invites us to a particular kind of madness. Just asphalt, an aging playlist and the nagging question of where to eat tonight. Road trips are a reminder that there’s still mystery out there, beyond the next bend.
The year in cities
There are few things that get under my skin quite like a big city. Give me buildings piled against buildings, streets disappearing into questionable neighborhoods, broken neon, exhaust fumes, food I can’t identify and several million people apparently late for something.
Camden on fire
A newsflash caught my attention today, which is increasingly difficult in a world where everything is apparently breaking news. This one unfortunately deserved it: Camden was on fire.
Airports with delayed flights
Most travelers have at some point experienced that special kind of airport purgatory: staring at a departure board while the word DELAYED quietly destroys whatever hope you had left.
Best cities to celebrate new year
New Year’s Eve is one of the most aggressively overhyped nights of the year. A perfectly ordinary change of date somehow requires champagne, fireworks, uncomfortable shoes and the expectation that everyone must be having the greatest night of their lives.