Presence

I am large, I contain multitudes.’

~ Walt Whitman, 1855

Travels, thus far…

Birth: India

  • Chennai
    • Bangalore
    • Coimbatore

Home: California

  • Sausalito
    • San Francisco
    • San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino
    • Mountain View
    • Mill Valley
    • Tiburon
  • Montecito, Santa Barbara
  • La Jolla, San Diego
  • Carmel Valley
  • Los Angeles
  • Piedmont
  • Fresno
  • Lodi

Travel: Europe

  • Spain
    • Madrid
    • Burguette (Irati River 1)
    • Pamplona
  • Italy
    • Ravello (The Amalfi Coast, By the Tyrrhenian Sea)
    • Naples (Land of Virgil)
    • Pompeii
  • Greece
    • Corfu (Scheria 2)
    • Athens (Land of Socrates, Plato, and the Acropolis)
    • Naxos (Land of Zeus; stranded for hours…)
    • Mykonos
    • Santorini
  • Netherlands
    • Amsterdam

Travel: North America

  • United States
    • Maui, Hawaii
    • New York City
    • Miami & Tampa
    • Washington
    • Las Vegas
    • Chicago
    • Boston
    • Detroit
    • Austin
    • Columbus
    • Seattle
    • Portland
    • Baltimore
  • Canada
    • Toronto

Travel: Rest of the World

  • Dubai
  • Hong Kong

Travels, to fly for…

The names of Greece and Italy draw me as no others; they make me young again,

The world of the Greeks and Romans is my land of romance; a quotation in either language thrills me strangely…

~ By the Ionian Sea, George Gissing, 1901

Travel: Europe

  • Italy
    • Florence (Dante & Botticelli)
    • Sicily
    • Milan
    • Rome 3
  • Greece
    • Kefalonia (Odysseus’ home)
    • Ithaca (Ithaki)
    • Paxos (Aeaea)
    • Rhodes (Lindos)
    • Pylos
  • France
    • Corsica (Napoleon & Victor Hugo)
    • Paris
    • Cannes
    • Nice
  • Austria
    • Vienna (Kafka, Mahler, Schiele)

  1. Visited the inn that Hemingway stayed in with his friend, and the river he fished in, made the trek there from Pamplona, visited the scenes from The Sun Also Rises ↩︎
  2. The home of the Phaeacians and King Odysseus’ last stop in his journey before returning home to Ithaca; one of the earliest descriptions of a utopia. ↩︎
  3. Rome, Naples, Florence by Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendahl), translated by Richard N. Coe; a teaser. ↩︎

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