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Writing Exercise: Visiting a Painting in the Art Institute of Chicago
“The room is quiet, and it seems quiet even when compared to a library. You hear the soft padding and occasional squeaking of rubber soles on parquet floors, a pencil shading grey-and-black trees on a sketchpad, and the moving air in the HVAC ductwork high overhead.” Continue reading
Walking the Dam
I walked a lot today. I love the feeling I get from long walks. And one really gets to know one’s backpack on multi-mile jaunts through a crowded city. I get to know it’s weight, its dimensions, and its stressors. … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue, Travelogue 2017, Travels
Tagged Amsterdam, art, arts, artwork, hostels, model ships, Museums, Netherlands, rijksmuseum, ships, Slow Travel, travel, travels, walking tour, wandering
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The Grand Tour, Revitalized
For quite a long time, particularly in Victorian-era England and in the upper echelons of society in the United States, children of well-to-do families set out (or were sent out, more accurately put) upon lengthy grand tours of Continental Europe. … Continue reading
Posted in Rough Ideas and Arguments, Teaching Memos, Travels
Tagged abroad, art, Culture, education, History, home schooling, learning, schooling abroad, Teaching, travel, tutoring
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The Best Laid Jetlag-Battling Plans…
Time zones can be tricky. The plan was to depart New York at 11pm local time, sleep through the night, arrive in Copenhagen at noon local time, and get through the day without sleeping so I could manage to sleep … Continue reading
Posted in 2015, Travelogue, Travelogue 2015
Tagged airplanes, art, Copenhagen, europe, History, jetlag, New York, new york city, NYC, the met, the metropolitan museum of art
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