It turns out that today was a Bank Holiday Monday (seemingly unrelated to May Day) so everyone was on holiday and the attractions were as busy as ever.
Starbucks again this morning, because it was convenient (read: ubiquitous). Somehow this doesn’t feel as inauthentic as eating at any of the numerous McDonalds, KFCs, or Pizza […]
Category Archives: travel
Bank Holiday
May 1, 2006 – 4:40 pm
Sunday in London
April 30, 2006 – 5:03 pm
Went to Victoria Street this morning looking for breakfast, and found only a Starbucks open! They charge extra if you’re having snacks to eat in, but serve them in bags just the same. Also, the concepts of mixed “not skim, not whole” milk and no water in a tea latte have no familiarity. […]
London arrival
April 29, 2006 – 4:09 pm
Time for a report on our first hours here in London.
Our American Airlines airplane had d fuel leak in the engine. Thankfully this was noticed while still at the gate, but they let us board and sit for 2 hours before moving us to a dusty little concourse, causing another pass through security and […]
Disney World 2005
December 23, 2005 – 12:19 pm
Kristan and I took a whirlwind tour through three Disney World parks yesterday, hitting what we missed three years ago. Surprising to me, the crowds were very light. I suppose the Christmas vacation for schoolchildren is next week.
At Epcot, we had to visit the new child-killing Misson: Space ride, widely known for the […]
Metrorail
June 3, 2004 – 10:56 am
One of the pleasures of visiting DC is in getting around via the Metrorail system. The underground stations are cavernous and seem to be everywhere; the trains themselves are spacious and incredibly quick. Everything about the system seems to be efficiently adapted to usage, as if they constantly tweak schedules and train allocation […]
Rayne and New Orleans
May 30, 2004 – 12:00 am
Friday night the three of us stayed with the family of a friend Kurt made in the novitiate. Ms. Jenny and Mr. Tim Courville live in a very different culture than the Browns: a cozy house reminiscent of suburban St. Louis, hobbies with motorcycles, sports cars, and trucks. Yet they, too, are steeped […]
Comings and Going
May 28, 2004 – 12:00 am
This morning, I awoke to crop dusters, we went to the most brief Catholic Mass I’ve ever experienced, and we toured the family rice and crawfish farms, where we selected a sack of crawfish freshly harvested, for lunch.
Later, my father and I drove to Grand Coteau and picked up Kurt from the novitiate, which he […]
Southern anachronisms
May 27, 2004 – 12:00 am
I drove with my father and John Brown, a Jesuit novice close to him, down to the Browns’ home at Cheneyville, LA. The scene of their house upon arrival is best described as classic and timeless: a white southern plantation home set behind a drive lined with centuries-old oaks, complete with wraparound porch, wood […]
food
April 26, 2004 – 3:46 pm
Kristan may be here for the Government Disney theme park of monuments and museums, but I love DC for the restaurants.
After driving up from Baltimore on Sunday, we were starving and randomly chose a restaurant near the hotel: Trio’s. The kitchen was swamped and we waited for some time before they brought out meat, […]
Washington DC 2004
April 19, 2004 – 12:00 am
The weather has been better than we could have hoped. Unseasonably warm and dry, beginning the day we arrived and ending as we left. Several times we’ve been told that we picked the right week to be here.
Since I was going to be gone so long, I took my car in to have […]
