A few weeks ago I had dinner in a strip mall. This is something I do occasionally. Regular readers may recall Two Days in Nevada, in which I recounted having dinner at a Thai restaurant in a strip mall in Las Vegas. This time I had dinner at a Thai restaurant in a strip mall […]
I stopped for lunch in Edwards, Colorado the other day. I was looking for a decent hamburger; I found the future of America. ____________________ Edwards, on the outskirts of the ski resort of Vail, is not quite a town. In fact, at first glance, it appears to be little more than a handful of strip […]
___________ Driving from San Francisco to Los Angeles not long ago I headed inland and stopped off in Fresno. The state’s fifth largest city had not been on my list of must-see places, but Paul Groth at Berkeley had assured me it was worth the detour in order to walk the Fulton Mall. Fulton Street […]
On reason I journeyed to Bentonville was to visit an old friend who used to live in New York but who came to this small town in northwestern Arkansas a few years back. Since college, I’ve had great affection for Asher Durand’s Kindred Spirits (1849). An important painting of the Hudson River School and a […]
Though the rapid growth of Las Vegas in the past two decades has transformed the surrounding desert, roughly 50 miles north of the city all that development gives way to a lot of empty land. It looks that way on the road atlas map and the reality on the highway doesn’t change one’s impression. The […]