Showing posts with label travel guides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travel guides. Show all posts

Friday, August 1, 2008

Sunset at Mar Saba

This is the only place that really feels like the Holy Land to me. Despite the sheep shit on the winding staircase to the fetid stream, there's something incredibly comforting about this place. It's quiet, a touch dangerous and mostly organic.

Especially the smells.

And then there's the blending of my two lives on the way here...winding mountain roads with clusters of Palestinian inhabitants along the way...the taxi driver blasting "where'd you get your body from" with a heavy bass beat. One part simple and almost primeval, one part obnoxiously American.

Stepping out of the taxi, the wind feels a bit like yogic breath, almost steady and pulsing enough to drive away the will.i.am.

Almost.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008

The Birmingham series

Some friends here visited the states at Christmastime and visited some of my favorite cities, including the one in which I lived for 4 years. By and large, they were underwhelmed, and my theory is that they simply didn't know where to go.

Thus, I've decided to start posting favorite places on occasion in the hopes the future visitors will heed my excellent advice.

This inaugural set of photos is from The Garage, one of Birmingham's premier bars that was supposedly voted one of the 10 bars worth traveling for by GQ magazine. But who knows, that might just be an urban legend.

Regardless, it's the perfect place to sit and chat with friends; engage in cute, flirty conversation or climb a tree, Zaccheus-style. However you choose to enjoy it, don't you dare miss it should you happen to pass through Birmingham, Alabama.
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