[Five! Postage stamp! Excuse me! . . . the German words I have acquired on this trip thus far] Houses overlooking the Neckar; the Philosopher’s Walk is hidden up on the hill in that shrubbery. Chicken marsala and spätzle for lunch at at the Goldener Löwe [Golden Lion], a popular spot that serves five changing… Continue reading Fünf! Briefmarke! Entschuldigen!
Category: Around the world
Heidelberg, overview in a sunset haze
It is a beautiful city. Regret will strike you hard enough to bruise when you watch the sites pass by undocumented on an evening run, for once without a camera. Bricks glow rosy in the sunset, as if the old town has been reawakened from a few hundred years’ sleep, with cooking fires still warming… Continue reading Heidelberg, overview in a sunset haze
Drift ice, from the air
Any idea where, between Chicago and Long Island, this is? It looked like the strip to the north was snow-covered land, but an ice floe in a lake? I could imagine hopping from one bobbing chunk to another, the water sloshing over the edges and threatening the tips of my boots; or sitting cross-legged and… Continue reading Drift ice, from the air
Hello pow pow.
That’s right, sitting atop a mountain is baller. Or, more accurately, I was still struggling to breathe after falling off the T-bar and hiking a good 50 meters up an icy incline to the peak [those things are hazardous for snowboarders!]. But check out the spectacular view and sweet bowl MW and I are about… Continue reading Hello pow pow.
To the mountains!
So my geography is a little off — that’s the Alps in Switzerland, not the Rockies in the U.S. — but it seemed a fittingly majestic mountaintop view. We’re heading to Breckenridge for the weekend for my first taste of “real” powder and a crash course snowboarding in it, with the luxury of a ski-in-ski-out… Continue reading To the mountains!