Travels with Phil Four: Carousels
Carousels, Merry-Go-Rounds, call them what you will, they are FUN! I have taken my grandkids to the one in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco. The woman I recently lived with for ten years took me to the one on Martha’s Vineyard Island, and it had the Brass Rings!! Her name was Martha also. Her […]
Travels with Phil Three – The World’s Biggest Chessboard
Maybe not, but they claim it is! I am NOT a good chess player but enjoy it enough that I carry a rollup rubber chess board in my car with a bag of cheap plastic chess pieces! At one job in Miami, two colleagues and I retired to a park every day with our sandwiches […]
Travels with Phil Two – No Rats in Me! – New York City
New York City is my favorite place to be a tour guide. There are SO many unusual things NOT listed on the tourist maps. This is one of my favorites! 420 Lexington Avenue, NYC, one block from Grand Central Station. There was a time when Architects added unnecessary but wonderful embellishments to their buildings. There […]
Travels with Phil – The Boston Mass Avenue Bridge
I do business in 19 states, and as I travel on business I always give myself at least a day where I am going to go to parks and museums and local sites. I have so found it fun when someone tells me, for example, that they have never been in New York City, to […]