The mercury had been rising daily, so this past weekend it was time to get our of town. You can get to Coney Island from our place by public transit, but it's a bit of a marathon. So we fired up the red rocket and drove. I don't think liberating the car from its parking [...]
It makes no sense: a dry creek is just a furrow, a trench, or a rut. Whatever. Although it doesn't have the high profile of neighbouring Napa valley, Dry Creek Valley is home to some pretty good wineries. We drove in from the coast, and settled in the town of Healdsburg. On the first day, [...]
It was our first non-working vacation since the pandemic started. We flew to California for some hiking, biking and wine-tasting. First stop was the Sonoma Coast, north of Jenner. There was a cold wind blowing at about 1000 kph during our visit to Salt Point State Park. But the flowers were in bloom, and the [...]
The rain stopped, so we went to Brooklyn and walked back across a bridge. We found where all the tourists have been hanging out.
When it’s raining in NYC it’s usually both a great and a terrible idea to visit a museum. Great, because what else are you going to do? Terrible, because everyone else has the same idea. But now that NYC is not swarmed with tourists, and museums are still limiting visitors due to COVID, the rules [...]
