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25 Oct

MIMI Restaurant & Bar

It’s so new, this 9-table, village restaurant that its website features only a menu and an address.  It’s so stylish that even...

25 Oct

The Tibetan Plateau (2)

17 Oct

Nostalgia

Must be getting old…In 1969 I moved to SoHo, a neighborhood inhabited by artists and (still) factory workers.  I was married to a painter,...

15 Oct

A Jaunt To Points South

A floatplane ferried me from Florida to the Exumas, a beautiful flight that left me with two overriding impressions:  just how beautiful the...

5 Oct

Meditations #68

Sacred tatoos, magical, mystical supplications for divine protection and blessings. Etched onto the body, they wrap the naked in a sacred skin,...

2 Sep

Notes from Shanghai

A room with a view – the corner suite at The Peninsula on the Bund looks across at all the iconic buildings of Shanghai.  Deliciously...

27 Aug

Meditations #67

Around the bend, my first glimpse of the temple’s golden roof. And then I see the huge complex: the chalky white stupa; the dry stone prayer...

20 Aug

The Tibetan Plateau (1)

The Tibetan Plateau is the largest, highest region in the world. An immense upland, averaging more than 16,500 feet in elevation, it includes...

8 Aug

Where Travel Begins

<a href="http://lisalindblad.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/764165 have a peek here.jpg”> I am a traveler.  I am a literal...

2 Aug

Meditations #66

Travel is at its most fun when chance encounters and discoveries are made. Serendipity’s best friend is time. And so, I am convinced,...

31 Jul

Messner’s Mountain Museums

Corones, Zaha Hadid-designed addition to Messner’s Mountain Museum Reinhold Messner, the legenday climber and prolific writer, has just...

30 Jul

Hirohisa

I love restraint which is probably why I love most things Japanese.  On Thompson Street, within a few doorways of a favorite Japanese restaurant,...

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