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°2025.04.22.Tue | New Orleans, LA

We’re back from NOLA, where I presented at the 2025 Popular Culture Assocation Conference. I didn’t care for the French Quarter (too many tourists and addicts) but I did note a few things, that can be seen in my photos.

• We made much use of the 12 and 57 tram and bus lines, respectively.
• The RTA public transit ferry ride to Algiers Point was a nice and inexpensive way to float on the Mississippi.
• Stores were more casual about dogs than those in Boston; the buses were okay and the trams more strict—even when we had Nixie in a bag, as permitted by policy.
• Folks there like their floats! Weekend nights are lit by open air buses and floats full of women drinking and partying (in Ward 7 at least).
• City Park is not a nice walking-about park; rather, it’s a bunch of athletic fields.
• Audubon Park is a lovely place to walk about (designed by an Olmsted).
• The Garden District is beautiful.
• I enjoyed Oak St. neighborhood, in Ward 14.
• Breads on Oak is one of the best vegan bakeries I’ve ever been to.

°2024.10.22.Tue | Fresh Pond’s dog pond in autumn

°2024.08.26.Mon | The lost rock of Lake Michigan

While visiting Michigan for a family wedding, we came across the Lost Rock of Douglas Beach, Lake Michigan.

°2024.03.28.Thu | Manhole with ladder

°2023.09.05.Tue | Charlestown and the Mystic Rivers

This Labor Day weekend we bicycled out to Menino Park, via Revere Park and the Charlestown Seawall Trail. We pushed on, past the Little Mystic (where Nixie jumped in for a swim) to the Mystic River itself. We’d never explored the waterfront side of Charlestown before and marveled at the old buildings, including the quarter-mile long Rope Walk building – now apartments.

°2023.07.27.Thu | Pittsburgh visit

Given we are thinking about the next stage of our lives, we visited Pittsburgh as a place we might move to. We enjoyed the city. There was plenty to do and see, we got around easily on bus and POGOH shared bikes, and we were taken with some of the neighborhoods. Our favorite were:

• Lawrenceville
• Friendship
• Point Breeze North (near East End Food Co-Op)
• Mexican War Streets in Central Northside
• (Bloomfield and Garfield are also okay)

°2023.06.22.Thu | Hello Nixie

On June 3 we returned from Mutt Rescue with a new dog.

“Nixie” (or “Nix”) was similar to her rescue name; Nora and I like Nixie tubes (i.e., Numeric Indicator eXperimental); her bark is raspy like Stevie Nicks; and she’s curious, following us to the bathroom even, hence “nosy Nixie.”

You can see more of her her first month photos with us.

°2023.03.06.Mon | Elliot Tower upon the Great Blue Hill

It’s spring break this week, but we are staying close for Casper, who can’t do much, but he enjoyed the portage up to Elliot Tower atop Great Blue Hill.

°2022.08.30.Tue | Sunday River, Maine

Visiting a ski resort in the summer makes for beautiful views. We took chair lifts up the mountain and hiked along a trail.

°2022.08.21.Sun | Red-tailed hawk at Arsenal Park

This weekend we pedaled up the Charles River to Arsenal Park, where we spotted a red-tailed hawk. She spotted us, as well.