Healy and Millet stained glass dome, and Tiffany stained glass dome and mother of pearl mosaic, Chicago Cultural Center built 1897. The Palmer House opened on September 26, 1871, but burned down 13 days later on October 9 in the Great Chicago Fire. Reconstructed mainly of iron and brick, the hotel was widely advertised as […]
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Including Thanksgiving dinner at Colorado’s Boulderado Hotel (opened New Years Day 1909).
We covered 3,100 miles in four driving days, plus a one-day pitstop in Chicago. First day: California, Nevada, Utah.
Soaking in the California light (at Big Sur’s Nepenthe, so named for mythical Greek sorrow-salve drug of forgetfulness) before heading back to the wintery East Coast after 3 years in ol’ Frisco. That Leonard Cohen-esque (the spoken word delivery anyway) Neil Diamond declaration I Am, I Said loops in my head: …nowadays, I’m lost between […]
Day tripping in Tijuana in search of Birria De Chivo.
Relishing the evening walks we have left here…