The Deep Blue Sea
We live in what we think is a crowded world—traffic jams, noisy streets, filled restaurants, multi-media blaring at us. Then you go to sea and find you can sail for days with a 360° view of the ocean around you, and
Glacial
I’ve stood on the Great Wall of China, sailed the Atlantic in the largest suite on the Queen Mary II, stayed in a luxury suite on stilts over blue/green waters in Bora Bora, piloted a World War II B-24 heavy
Gold Dust
The first people to find gold in the hills of Alaska came back with so little that it didn't even fill a used rifle cartridge. But that brought a hundred thousand in search of wealth, of whom 30,000 actually were
Landing on Ice
We landed on two glaciers at Juneau, Alaska, in the rain, in a chopper, piloted by a 25-year-old who has been flying for seven years. We landed on ice patches and learned that a glacier is not at all what
Haute Cuisine
One of the outstanding assets of Nantucket is that, beyond the glorious settings and ocean, it has some world class restaurants. Here we are in Company of the Cauldron with chef Joseph Heller, Thomas Heller's brother, both of The French
Help! (I Need Somebody, Help, Not Just Anybody….)
I'm walking onto the beach in front of our house and a lifeguard is planting a strange flag. "What does that signify?" I ask. She says, "This is the boundary for safe swimming where we are attentive and react if needed." "Do you
Histories Daily
My uncle asked us long ago, where do all those photos end up? The end up in albums you never look at. He was pretty accurate in that we'd mount the photos in large binders and maybe take them out on
“Uber”: Definition is “an extreme example”
An Uber driver picked us up right on time in Manhattan last evening during a thunderstorm. Another was waiting for us outside the theater on time when a dozen theaters were emptying on to the streets. Every Uber driver we've
Media Mayhem
When we were preparing to visit Paris for both business and pleasure two weeks ago, I asked my business colleagues if they were at all concerned about the media coverage of the strikes and street violence. They said they thought
Preservation
I learned at the Louvre that there is an informal agreement among museums: Drawings can be on display for three months consecutively, but only in darker rooms, and then must be "retired" for three years to total darkness and not