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Showing posts with label travel diary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel diary. Show all posts
26.12.23

Exploring NYC's Hidden Power: ConEd Steam Pipes - A Journey Beneath the City Streets

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Dive into NYC's unseen marvel: ConEd's steam pipes. Discover the city's underground energy network creating urban steam art, tra...
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8.8.21

Travel Postcard: That Time I Visited a Public Library in Saltillo, Mexico

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In this post, I write about finding a photograph of me standing in front of a public library in Saltillo, Mexico. Greig poses in front of a ...
26.7.21

I Go Walking Often in New York City: Tunnel Portals and Asian Comfort Food

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In this blog post, I reflect on the relationship between walking and wandering in the city. And how I found the East River tunnel portals in...
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3.7.21

A Visit to Chicago, Illinois and a Brief Re-Encounter with a Favorite Painting at the Art Institute of Chicago

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In this post, I finish a voyage on Amtrak's Empire Builder route, and stopover in Chicago for a spell where I re-encounter one of my fav...
29.6.21

Feeling Kinda Heated in a Heatwave — A Solo Adventure to Washington State (And How I Was Almost Stuck Without a Ride at a Safeway in Monroe)

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In this post, I recount moments in my solo adventure to Washington State during a historic heatwave — a brief stop in Seattle, and how I man...
27.6.21

That Weekend I Stayed in a Small Mountain Town in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest (along the Cascade Mountain Range in Washington State)

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In this post, I write about why fantasy for the rustic life is really a sham. I'm not made for the mountains. But I liked my visit to Sk...
22.6.21

All Aboard! The Capitol Limited is an Overnight Train between Washington, D.C. and Chicago (And Where I Hung Out with Mennonites)

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In this post, I wax lyrical about the joys of long distance train travel via Amtrak. Also, I’ve started a travel log of sorts. All who wande...
31.5.21

Travel Diary #34598: On A Memorial Day in Oyster Bay, Nassau County on a Wet, Rainy, Cusp-of-Summer Afternoon

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In this post, I recount a Memorial Day weekend outing to Oyster Bay. I t’s Memorial Day, y’all. Do you think of history when you think of Lo...
31.10.20

All Hallows' Eve in Greenwood Cemetery and Sunset Park, Brooklyn (Special 2020 Halloween Post)

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In this post, I regale you with pictures and musing from an All Hallows' Eve visit to Greenwood Cemetery and Sunset Park, Brooklyn. It w...
25.10.20

On How To Meet a Pontiff (Or, That Day I Attended a Private Audience with John Paul II)

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When I was a Roman Catholic Seminarian, and the very young age of  nineteen, I was in a private audience with the then Pontiff of the Roman ...
24.12.19

Christmas Eve Bonfire Along the Mississippi River Levee in St. James Parish, Louisiana

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Along the Corps of Engineers engineered  Mississippi earthen levee stretching from Paulina, Lutcher, Gramercy to LaPlace, Louisiana folks h...
1.2.19

Ten Things to Do in New Orleans for First-Time Visitors (From a Former New Orleanian)

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What to do if you find yourself in New Orleans? Here are my top-ten fun things to do in the city that care forgot. Photo by Stephen Walk...
3.11.18

Aesthetic Thursday: A Dandelion Flower Grows on the Side of the Fall River Road in the Rocky Mountain National Park

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I took this photograph back in the Summer of 2008 - I had discovered this field of dandelions on the Fall River Road, a windy road in the Ro...
8.10.18

Travel Diary: Waiting for the Train in Hudson, New York

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In this post, I post a video of my Mom and me waiting for the train  — we saw the Adirondack pass through, and then, later, we hopped onto ...
31.3.16

Photograph: Spring Day in Philadelphia

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"Around Panama Street, I Wouldn't Wonder." A photograph in Philadelphia of decorative Crabapple trees that line the stre...
16.4.12

Photo: Buggy

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I pose with a buggie next to the A train elevated line in Far Rockaway, Queens. We call 'em buggies EZ Link for Sharing
29.4.11

Travel Diary: Fountain Lover, 2007

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Roma, Italia Roma is a City of Fountains Visiting Rome, I notice fountains. Lots of them. Rome is a city of fountains.  Washing my face...
28.8.10

Picture: Looking Through the Door of a Subway Car Window on the Pelham Bay Local

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I took a photograph of a subway car door's window and posted it here on my website. Check it out and read other fabulous stuff by Gr...
7.8.10

The 215th Street IRT Elevated Subway Station in New York City

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An Excerpt from my book of essays Things I Probably Shouldn't Have Said (And Other Faux Pas):  Exploring the stations along the IRT Bro...
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