Our wander through Georgetown culminated in a stroll up 31st Street to Dumbarton Oaks. (The stroll itself is a treat – what a gorgeous neighborhood.) There are two parts to this property, which is owned by Harvard: the house, now a museum and research library, and the garden. The museum is free, but the gardens […]
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This summer’s trip was to Washington DC. We built the trip around a Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds concert, which meant we were crazy enough to go venturing into the craziest humidity zone known to man. (Ok, that’s the entire South, and I did live in Florida for a summer, and I really did
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While we were at Tonto, we were chatting with another couple, and they mentioned the Besh Ba Gowah ruins in Globe. They’re a bit off the main route, so we had never seen any signs, but they’re worth seeking out if you’re in the area. The site is run by the city, and they have
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To get to Tonto, you take Route 60 from Phoenix, up to Globe. That drive takes you over the Gonzalez pass. We’d done this trip before, but from the opposite direction, and it was at night, so we’d missed the scenery. The mountains are strikingly beautiful, but what’s even more striking is when you get
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The last time we were in Arizona, at the end of our rather epic journey along the Apache Trail, we passed the entrance to the Tonto National Monument. It was closed at the time, so while it mentioned cliff dwellings, we had to look it up later to see what it involved. Turns out, there
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The other cool thing about visiting the Desert Botanical Garden is that it turns out they were having a Chihuly glass exhibit. One of the things I really like about the garden is how structural the cactus are, so having the glass in amongst them was a really interesting contrast. We never did
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So it wouldn’t be a trip to the Phoenix area for us if we didn’t stop by the Desert Botanical Garden. And can I just say how nice it was to see some green? One thing we did differently this time was check out the succulent collection. I don’t know how we’ve managed not to
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I’m back from Arizona. It’s snowing right now, and I’m finding it hard to believe that just yesterday, I was looking at cactus. I have about 500 pictures to go through, and five books read, so those will be coming out over the next several days. In the meantime, a few non-pictorial highlights: Short Leash
I need to add a postscript to my trip report. Our last day was really all about getting to the airport. Which we did on the RER train, and which afforded us our last great authentic Parisian experience. Now, I had read up a lot about the petty theft problem in Paris. I was well
So by the time of Louis XIV, Versailles was becoming a bit much for the king and his family, so he had a smaller palace built on the outskirts of Versailles, and the Trianons were born. They’re really quite lovely, and way more opulent than a summer house should be. The thing about the Trianons
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