"Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey." -Pat Conroy
Sometimes with travel an anticipated event will lack luster and an unexpected surprise will be a hit of the trip! One of the coolest serendipitious trip sights was an exhibit currently displayed on the Roof Garden of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Big Bamboo" was constructed by twin brothers Mike and Doug Stern. They've attached huge bamboo poles into an intricate structure that you can walk through pathways and meander around a lower level maze. Looking out from the bamboo you overlook Central Park. It was amazing. Kind of a quirky project like "The Gates" in Central Park several years ago. Big Bamboo didn't get all the hype of The Gates but it's very cool!
Besides the fascinating tour of Sotheby's and the Lehman Art Auction yesterday we went to Little Italy right during a festival and full processional. Then, onto SoHo and visiting Abby's cute new apartment on West Broadway. How dangerous would it be to live 2 doors away from an Anthropologie store?
Greenwich Village was next. Carole lived in Greenwich Village years ago so she fills us in on famous writers who've lived in the village. We kept walking all the way down Bleeker Street through the West Village to the new High Line Park walkway that leads all the way to Chelsea.
Our play tickets last night were for a show by Nora and Delia Ephron called "Love, Loss, and What I Wore." It was a perfect show for women; clever vignettes on women & their shoes, their handbags, their relationships and their clothes! Funny and poignant! We all loved it!
Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen." -Benjamin Disraeli
