Besides my review of Frommer’s “France Color Complete Guide.” permit me to share my own opinionated view of how monumental it is for the Frommers to get these guidebooks out. After looking over the new France and Spain books, I had some…
August 8, 2014 The title is not my own. I swiped it off the poster you see here and I’m borrowing it as a ruse to get you to read something you may not have otherwise. Reading through my emails this morning, there was…
June 1, 2014 After a conversation this morning with my overnight guests over coffee and toast, in which we talked…
I made this image of a man sleeping next to a side entrance of the National Assembly on my first trip to Paris, as a 16-year-old in 1960.
Gumbo’s Picture of the Day for April 13th, above, is an image I made nearly 55 years ago, on my first trip to Paris: a man sleeping on the ground at a side entrance to the National Assembly building.
April 8, 2014 In the shower today, my best thinking place, I thought about the first moment I can recall when the idea occurred to me that I could travel to faraway places, if I chose to. My family lived near the top of the hill in…
March 28, 2014 Like any kid, Gumbo is growing up. And when kids grow up, if they have any gumption and imagination at all, they become unpredictable. That, I believe, is the purpose of this new feature, to show that…
Besides my review of Frommer’s “France Color Complete Guide.” permit me to share my own opinionated view of how monumental it is for the Frommers to get these guidebooks out. After looking over the new France and Spain books, I had some…
August 8, 2014 The title is not my own. I swiped it off the poster you see here and I’m borrowing it as a ruse to get you to read something you may not have otherwise. Reading through my emails this morning, there was…
June 1, 2014 After a conversation this morning with my overnight guests over coffee and toast, in which we talked…
I made this image of a man sleeping next to a side entrance of the National Assembly on my first trip to Paris, as a 16-year-old in 1960.
Gumbo’s Picture of the Day for April 13th, above, is an image I made nearly 55 years ago, on my first trip to Paris: a man sleeping on the ground at a side entrance to the National Assembly building.
April 8, 2014 In the shower today, my best thinking place, I thought about the first moment I can recall when the idea occurred to me that I could travel to faraway places, if I chose to. My family lived near the top of the hill in…
March 28, 2014 Like any kid, Gumbo is growing up. And when kids grow up, if they have any gumption and imagination at all, they become unpredictable. That, I believe, is the purpose of this new feature, to show that…