Greetings from Airworld!
[Atlantic Monthly | July/Aug 2006] A tour of America
without ever leaving the airport - six days, five airports, 106 hours
of layover-as-vacation.
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Back to the Future
[Atlantic Monthly | December 2005] A ride on the new Las
Vegas monorail isn't so much an excursion into the future, as a trip to
a curiously nostalgic past.
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The Same, Only Better
[Preservation | Sept/Oct 2002] Modernist architecture
was radically new when it first appeared. Now quickly aging, does it
require a radically new approach to preservation? Read more...
Bidding the Interstate Goodbye
[New York Times | July 14, 2002] Four weeks, 7,052 miles, 23 states, one Volkswagen camper. Taking a road trip that bypasses "Supersize" America. Read more...
The Old Man and the Daiquiri
[Atlantic Monthly | October 2005] How did Ernest
Hemingway, the most manly of bare-fisted fighting men, come to be
associated with the frozen daiquiri, a drink that brings to mind
sundresses and strawberries? An excursion through Old Havana's bars in search of the answer. Read more...
Aquaculture at the Crossroads
[Yankee Magazine | Oct 2003] Raising fish in ocean pens went from hippie idea to major, mutinational industry in twenty years flat. Where does it go from here? A dispatch from easternmost Maine. Read more...
The Price of Popularity
[Preservation | May/June 2002] If your town makes one
of the "best places to live" lists, don't count on it remaining so.
A look at one town - Ashland, Ore. - and how it got that way. Read more....