When I fell in love with my husband (we met on a trip across the Australian outback), I began series of long haul flights between Seattle and Vienna or Salzburg. On my first trip I went for two weeks, or maybe it was three, and my trips got longer and longer. After a while, I could no longer say I was just visiting. I had a driver’s license. I had seen a dentist more than once.… continued…
Last week, while we were visiting, my mom asked “us kids” what we thought about the Kindle
The globe at my best pal’s place is mounted to have the north pole up top and the south at the bottom. You can flip it the other way round, but it doesn’t sit like that on its own. North, for some reason, is up, it’s up on the 1950′s map I have hanging in my basement, it’s up in all the atlases we have kicking around the house. It’s always up. North is up, south is down, and it’s funny to think about how, from Alaska to my house in Seattle, it’s downhill the whole way.… continued…
I’m in a HomeAway sponsored vacation rental while in NYC. FYI.
I like vacation rentals because they allow me to migrate more easily into the fantasy that the place I’m visiting is actually my home. I can carry a bag of groceries up three flights to my temporary flat. I can have a neighborhood where people live, where bicycles are locked up on back balconies and my window looks not into an impersonal wall of hotel rooms, but into other apartments where dishes pile up on counters and conversations about work leak out into the weird narrow spaces between buildings.… continued…
It’s like a horror movie for your wallet. Funny how you can barely see the damage in the video footage. The part of Kermit the Frog is played by Peter Carey, stunned passenger, Kelly Goodman.
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