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Category Archives: Travel
The Coronaball Run, Day 7: Flagstaff to Los Angeles
Blowhard, Esq. writes: This is the seventh and final installment of my series about driving cross-country during the coronavirus crisis. Click here for first post, here for the second post, here for the third post, here for the fourth post, here … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Flagstaff, Louis L'Amour, Munchy's, Needles, Route 66, truck stops, westerns, Whole Foods
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The Coronaball Run, Day 6: Santa Fe to Albuquerque to Flagstaff
Blowhard, Esq. writes: This is the sixth installment of my series about driving cross-country during the coronavirus crisis. Click here for first post, here for the second post, here for the third post, here for the fourth post, and here for … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Albuquerque, arizona, Breaking Bad, Flagstaff, New Mexico, Petrified Forest, Vince Gilligan
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The Coronaball Run, Day 5: Oklahoma City to Amarillo to Santa Fe
Blowhard, Esq. writes: This is the fifth installment of my series about driving cross-country during the coronavirus crisis. Click here for first post, here for the second post, here for the third post, and here for the fourth post. From the … Continue reading
The Coronaball Run, Day 4: Little Rock to Fort Smith to Oklahoma City
Blowhard, Esq. writes: This is the fourth installment of my series about driving cross-country during the coronavirus crisis. Click here for first post, here for the second post, and here for the third post. On day four we left the south … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Arkansas, Bricktown, brutalism, but what about her emails?, Carrie Underwood, Charles Portis, Clinton Presidential Library, Coen Brothers, Fort Smith, Hidaway Pizza, Kings of Leon, Little Rock, Mena, OKC Memorial, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City Dodgers, True Grit, Vince Foster, Waffle House
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The Coronaball Run, Day 3: Nashville to Oxford to Clarksdale to Little Rock
Blowhard, Esq. writes: This is the third installment of my series about driving cross-country during the coronavirus crisis. Click here for first post and here for the second post. On day three we pulled off the 40 and detoured through the back … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Arkansas, BBQ, blues, Clarksdale, George Jenkins, Gus's Famous Fried Chicken, Highway 61, Jackson, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Little Rock, Mississippi, Nashville, Oxford, Parthenon, Publix, Robert Johnson, Roger Stolle, Tennessee
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The Coronaball Run, Day 1: New York City to Richmond
Blowhard, Esq. writes: In the middle of the coronavirus crisis, I drove from New York City to Los Angeles. I had been planning to move back to California for a number of weeks and I wasn’t about to let the zombie apocalypse … Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Aberdeen, coronavirus, COVID-19, Delaware, I-95, Maryland, New Jersey, nyc, Richmond, the coronaball run, Virginia, Waffle House, Washington DC
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Notes on Carousel/Liliom
Fenster writes: Eddie Pensier, a child of the opera and a co-blogger here, got me going to the Met, and I am thankful for that. But, still, I have never been much of a fan of Broadway musicals. Music class … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Music, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Budapest, Carousel, Hammerstein, Hungary, Liliom, molnar
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Letter from Benelux
Fenster writes: As I wrote here, I am in Ghent for a week, with a stop first in Amsterdam and with a side trip across the border to Germany. Nothing against the homeland but when I travel I prefer the … Continue reading
Posted in Personal reflections, Politics and Economics, Travel
Tagged Belgium, Ghent, Migrants, Trump
15 Comments