About 200 miles from my hometown, this was the furthest west I travelled while enrolled in college (I didn’t even make it to Syracuse or the fairgrounds). I was here to pick up posters for the Glimmerglass Festival. Most of what I saw of East Syracuse was an office park and railyard. Driving to and […]
Category: Locations
Bowker Auditorium
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts As a theater professional, and even as a kid, what strikes me most about Bowker Auditorium is its use of windows inside the space. These have to be constantly covered by curtains during performances, but even on a matinee you still can tell that there is daylight outside. I went […]
Upper Rio Grande River
Colorado Without the upper part of the Rio Grande, Creede would not exist. As a practical matter this section of the river and its tributaries carved the valley that Creede nestles in. For me exploring the many streams near town flowing down the mountains to feed the Rio Grande including Bellows, Farmers and Willow Creeks […]
Leitha/Lajta River
Austria and Hungary My first day trip while studying abroad in Vienna was to a town called Eisenstadt. Along the way the train there made a stop at a down called Bruck an der Leitha (literally Bridge on the Leitha River). As with the Susquehanna I’ve viewed this river in several distinct locations. I’ve seen […]
Susquehanna River
New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland I’ve seen the Susquehanna River in three different locations. The Glimmerglass Festival in Cooperstown, NY, where I interned in the summer of 2017, lies on the north end of Otsego Lake, which is the source of the river; a bridge 8 miles south in downtown Cooperstown touts itself as the […]
SLV
Every region has its acronyms, shortcuts for referring to places. Creede and the surrounding area have SLV, San Luis Valley, as the abbreviation for where they are. The name infuses the valley. There’s the SLV REC, San Luis Valley Rural Electric Cooperative (when asked what REC stood for at work I once said “regional electric […]
Gates A54-A87, Denver International Airport, Denver, Colorado
While I can attest that it’s not the illuminati headquarters, gates A54-A87 offer a respite from the bustle of DIA for those of us paupers who cannot afford visiting the airport lounges. Lying in a one story building attached to the eastern side of Concourse A, these gates primarily serve small planes travelling to out […]
San Luis Valley Regional Airport, Alamosa, Colorado
My first view of this airport came when the pilot on my eight-seater Boutique Air flight, pointed the nose down in order to lose thousands of feet of altitude quickly before approach. This was a bit harrowing. A few minutes later we landed incredibly softly on runway 20 after a somewhat turbulent approach. Alamosa has […]