Lauren has been invited by Backroads Bicycle Tours to chart a new trip from Barcelona through the Pyrenees, so she is leaving Thursday to meet the other leaders in Spain. After their "explorations," I will fly over to Barcelona to meet her next Wednesday and we may retrace the route NOT ON A BICYCLE. Right now, our plans are a bit unplanned, but we're bringing camera, computer, spanish-english dictionery and a spirit of adventure. We might even go down to Morocco. So stay tuned.
Clarke is off to Texas to visit his 92 year old grandfather then spend some time in NYC. Chuck and I have just returned from the SOciety of Illustrators Educators' Symposium. IN addition to being welcomed to the hallowed halls behind the shiny red door on E 63rd Street, the weather was spectacular, the people fashionable and everyone so very kind. I've never had a more delightful time in the BIG APPLE. One tour we highly recommend is the backstage tour of Lincoln Center - a small group gets to go behind the scenes at the Vivan Beaumont Theater, sit in on a rehearsal of the Metropolitan Opera, walk the halls of the divas, check out the New York Philharmonic and generally be at GROUND ZERO for the Performing Arts in America. What a thrill!!! And, since this IS Travel2Art, we can avoid mentioning the Museum of Art and Design (Columbus Circle) and the new Highline (an elevated subway line that has been transformed into a walking, viewing, gathering place filled with greenery, performances, food and (late night) spontaneous striptease shows in the windows of apartments overlooking the Hudson. The energy is like getting a major transfusion of intelligence, culture and innovation. I felt like I was on a four day ART DATE.
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After classes, a thunderstorm began to threaten a leisurely pre-dinner piazza gathering so Chuck and I headed off (code word for "willi... -
His dorm? Or maybe it's a hotel. This is way before the era of The Container Store.
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