The Armchair Adventurer

Red Rocks Trail, Boulder, CO. April, 2015. #nytodenver2015 #roadtrip #colorado #co #hkking #redrocks #mountains https://www.instagram.com/p/CCYaUS_jfOO/?igshid=o3zod7b3dt3x

Eastern Colorado, April 2015. #nytodenver2015 #colorado #roadtrip #road https://www.instagram.com/p/CCXDwESDd37/?igshid=1d5b3ow5yaclc

Scott City, Kansas. 2015. #nytodenver2015 #roadtrip #kansas #scottcity #shadows https://www.instagram.com/p/CBx9-B6jLUx/?igshid=snw8jfg86pew

Monument Rock, Kansas. NY to Denver, Spring 2015. #kansas #monumentrock #kansas #roadtrip #badlands https://www.instagram.com/p/CBvV6kMD_gN/?igshid=8984a3n2l1aw

Horse Thief Canyon, Kansas — Spring, 2015. #horsethiefcanyon #kansas #roadtrip #hiking #nytodenver2015 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBS_RNuDujP/?igshid=1hn4uslew9p3l

Manhattan, Kansas. April2015, NY to Denver. — the second best cup of coffee I had in my life was in this small college town. Sparrow Coffee, which got its beans from a toaster out of Kansas City. It was an Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, which always goes well for me. My uncle and I camped in the campground at the foot of this dam, in a tent. Overnight, we heard some of the most violent thunderstorms of my life, and I honestly feared a tornado might be close by. Luckily, we made it through. #manhattanks #kansas #roadtrip #nytodenver2015 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBNtN1-DUYr/?igshid=glcgnhs0vqb4

Eastern Kansas. NY to Denver, 2015. Kansas is equally what I expected and not what I expected. I think I excepted what Nebraska is, but found Kansas to have more hills, and be more beautiful, in its own way. #kansas #ks #roadtrip #nytodenver2015 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBLQvh7jHmO/?igshid=1qaxjxo9xu2gx

Kansas City, MO — NY to Denver, April 2015. Kansas City was a real surprise, and is a beautiful town. There are two sides: the rich, Missouri Side, and the poorer Kansas Side (which was tougher around the edges, but WAY more beautiful). I hope to get back there to photograph the Rail Yards, which were massive. In fact, all cattle from there south used to be run up to this rail yard to be put on trains. #roadtrip #kansascity #missouri #mo #nytodenver2015 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBDV-2GjJvU/?igshid=1xnh7kr67ur19

Missouri and the Mark Twain National Forest — April, 2015. NY to Denver Road Trip. #missouri #roadtrip #markteainnationalforest #nationalforest https://www.instagram.com/p/CBDV7_YjxO2/?igshid=11atv6thibvn7

Great Smoky Mountains National Park — NY to Denver Road Trip, April 2015 #Tennessee #nationalparks #greatsmokymountains #roadtrip #cadescove #blackandwhite #nytodenver2015 https://www.instagram.com/p/CBBFrfYDX57/?igshid=1xg345nendno9

Knoxville, Tennessee. April 2015. #nytodenver2015 #roadtrip #tennessee #knoxville #streetphotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CA75V1ojwZC/?igshid=1foavrffvtavf

Going through old photos from my 2015 road trip from NY to Tennessee to Kansas to Colorado #nytodenver2015 #newyork #roadtrip https://www.instagram.com/p/CA6KQZKDrO6/?igshid=dyqaax9gm2zh

October Trip to #Milwaukee. #Wisconsin https://www.instagram.com/p/CAFxTiNlb3e/?igshid=1wqc8bbsw4hoh

Post-vacation, pre-Covid. October, 2019. #newyork #manhattan #chinatown #doyersstreet #signs #homeless #closed #business https://www.instagram.com/p/B_kUeeHl8kV/?igshid=1bzv0e5ewbd6r

Hard to believe that when they announced the 14th St Busway back on October 2nd that all streets would look like 14th street six months later. This was the press conference, 2 blocks from my office. This change completely made the area a delight, very livable. We all hoped they would enact this on some more major streets. Now they all seem to be (most days), and this city has become so much more livable when I do go out on foot, or on bike. I hope we learn from this and continue to build a bet tree r city for pedestrians once this is over. #dot #bus #mta #busway #nyc #newyork #manhattan https://www.instagram.com/p/B_fNEMsDTQM/?igshid=x3f89rkkqeip

Let’s remember what normal was like. Coming back from a vacation (this is last Sept) is like remembering what your normal life was like. In this case, I had been on the road for two weeks, across some lonely, solitary spaces. So coming back to (what was) our normal life was refreshingly strange and delightful to me. Someone, in a love letter to New York in 1947, once said: “New York isn’t always great to live in, but it’s always a wonderful place to return to.” I heart you NY. I can’t wait to return. #newyork #manhattan #crowds #streetlife #streetphotography #newyorkstateofmind https://www.instagram.com/p/B_Uz_BJjgG9/?igshid=wx1efevxc994

Redeye Arrivals, JFK, TWA Terminal — the end of my September 2019 travel. Red eyes are painful. Even when you get sleep, you wake up on a plane, stiff, uncaffeinated, in a sea of people. So when I walked into the TWA Lobby, somewhere I had been many times, I felt a warm welcome. I experienced not only architectural beauty, but natural beauty from the morning suns warmth. Period music filled the air, and once I found that cool VW Bug coffee cart, all the mystery of a red eye, of not being in California, not being in the beauty of nature, all of it, melted away. Why don’t we do this anymore? We need to invest in architecture like this on a larger level, because it makes a difference. It matters. Don’t just make it convenient. Make it beautiful. #idaho2019 #jfk #roadtrip #newyork #airport #redeye #travel #twaterminal #morning https://www.instagram.com/p/B_AOdJjjKy_/?igshid=t3a6mwh0plts