April 12, 2014

Scared of Heights? These places AREN’T for you

Conde Naste just released a slide show of eleven places with glass bottom views — places with steep drop-offs that end in oblivion.  Basically, a destination intending to give you a chance to take a leap of faith (will the glass break while I’m…

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Who are we when we travel?

Gumbo’s Picture of the Day for April 13th, above, is an image I made nearly 55 years ago, on my first trip to Paris: a man sleeping on the ground at a side entrance to the National Assembly building.

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Mokelumne Hill, California

  When my mother was a child, she and her mother spent summers at the  Hotel Lêger in Mokelumne Hill and her father would join them on the weekends.  Built in the early 1850s, when the population of Northern California was…

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Scared of Heights? These places AREN’T for you

Conde Naste just released a slide show of eleven places with glass bottom views — places with steep drop-offs that end in oblivion.  Basically, a destination intending to give you a chance to take a leap of faith (will the glass break while I’m…

Read More

Who are we when we travel?

Gumbo’s Picture of the Day for April 13th, above, is an image I made nearly 55 years ago, on my first trip to Paris: a man sleeping on the ground at a side entrance to the National Assembly building.

Read More

Mokelumne Hill, California

  When my mother was a child, she and her mother spent summers at the  Hotel Lêger in Mokelumne Hill and her father would join them on the weekends.  Built in the early 1850s, when the population of Northern California was…

Read More