I am in mourning because yesterday I finished Hell Bent, a book I was totally taken up with, totally lost in the author’s tale. And now it’s over, I can never visit that world for the first time again. Benjamin Lorr was at one time, if you like, a Bikram Kool-Aid drinker, who went to […]
Wild by Cheryl Strayed Book Review: A woman’s woman’s book, a woman hiker’s bible, and meditation on what matters, in an exciting package. I have been reading Wild by Cheryl Strayed and have found in her a fellow-traveler in more ways than one. Not just someone who felt she had to go somewhere for spiritual
To say I was a little bit apprehensive might be an understatement. The source of my fear wasn’t simply all that water, but something else.
This is the attraction we came to Key West to see, the Hemingway Museum, Key West. This is a two story bungalow on high ground in the middle of the island. Surrounded by roads commonly walked by tourists, by wandering bantam roosters, men wearing hats of all types, and inhabited by polydactl cats, this is
If you are planning to visit Hemingway bars where he drank when he lived on Key West, Florida, you have two stops to make. First To Captain Tony’s Captain Tony’s Saloon in Key West is a dark hole with tables, a guitarist, a bar tender and a gnarled tree pushing up through the ceiling like
