We awoke to threatening skies, and decided it would be a good day to take in a museum, so we hopped a subway uptown to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, aka the Met. After a short walk through the towering apartment buildings of the Upper East Side, we arrived at the sprawling neoclassic museum with [...]
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Dan’s New York Journal – Part 3 (Photos by Ellen Goldstein)
Posted in Travel, tagged Manhattan, Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Million Dollar Quartet, New York, Times Square on September 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
My New York Journal – Part 2 (Photos by Ellen Goldstein)
Posted in Reviews, Travel, tagged Manhattan, Met, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Million Dollar Quartet, New York, Times Square on July 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We awoke to threatening skies, and decided it would be a good day to take in a museum, so we hopped a subway uptown to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, aka the Met. After a short walk through the towering apartment buildings of the Upper East Side, we arrived at the sprawling neoclassic museum with [...]
My New York Journal – Part 1 (Photos: Ellen Goldstein)
Posted in Travel, tagged Ellis Island, Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, Statue of Liberty, Travel on July 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
For Ellen’s 60th birthday (or as she likes to call it, her second 30th birthday) we spent six days in New York City…my first visit ever. I found not only world-class restaurants, entertainment, museums and architecture, but some of the nicest people I had ever encountered in my travels. With so much to see and [...]
Maasai Tribesmen For Obama
Posted in Travel, tagged Africa, Kenya, Maasai, Obama, Travel on October 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A Maasai village, in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro in western Kenya, seemed like an unlikely place to find ourselves discussing the upcoming presidential election. On a recent trip to Africa, we were given the opportunity to meet the inhabitants of a Maasai village in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park, and learn about their lifestyle. But [...]
An African Safari Adventure
Posted in Travel, tagged Africa, Kenya, safari, Tanzania, Travel, wildlife on July 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The massive buffalo stared us down, his angry eyes and horns picking up the light from the Masai escort’s flashlight. “Yi-yi-yi!” shouted the Masai, shaking his flashlight violently. The buffalo stood motionless. “Yi-yi-yi!” The buffalo lunged in our direction and stopped. Again, the Masai shouted and waved his flashlight, and this time the buffalo sauntered [...]
Denver’s Astonishing New Art Museum
Posted in Travel, tagged art, Denver, Liebeskind, museum, Travel on November 6, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
(photo: Ellen Goldstein) Driving up Santa Fe Avenue on an unseasonable balmy Friday night, the streets teemed with people taking part in a monthly Denver tradition known as “First Friday, as galleries stay open for the evening crowd. This night, with the nearby town hall bathed in pink light for a breast cancer walk, the [...]
