Lisboa is wonderful: iconically European, full of character, cobblestone, and Western history. Boasting Moorish fortresses and Gothic/Romantic castles atop every hillside. Offering delicious tapas and sweet custard tarts (pasteis de nata) twice or five times on every block. With the graceful Tagus “River running through it”, from where 15th and 16th-century Portuguese navigators set sail to East Asia, Africa, and the New World. Hard to capture in words alone. Santa Fe Substack is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work
“Ohhh, Por-tu-gal!”, Part 2: A Brief History & 4 Days in Lisboa
Today is Valentine’s Day AND my 22nd anniversary! So perhaps, if you’re enjoying the music here - as much as I did in there, in Lisboa… …take a listen to this while reading: The most westerly country in Europe (surprisingly more west than both Great Britain and Ireland), Portugal is about 349 miles long and 135 miles wide. For you Americans, it's roughly the size of Indiana or Maine. A comfortable size to navigate in two weeks. First, a little history. Humans have lived in the area that’s now Portugal since at least 400,000 years ago. The earlies
“Ohhh, Por-tu-gal!”, Preamble
Usually, when I travel, I get incredibly nervous and uncomfortable the closer I get to my departure date. I know it has something to do with adventuring into unrevealed territory, with my losing control, and with my innate sense of worry, dread and catastrophe. I also know that it’s because I always travel independently - whether it’s alone/solo, or with my wife, Surya, for the last twenty-one years. I/we don’t take tours, cruises or group trips. I plan my/our travel itinerary entirely by myself, sometimes only with the sketchiest of “itineraries”, a lonely travel guidebook. That
CONFESSIONS OF AN AGING TRAVELER
Aprll 19, 2022 Back from San Miguel de Allende. Me-he-co. Back to the same ol’, same ol’. LA, California. Going on 40 years now! Like most trips, upon your inevitable return, why does it always seem - so exactly the same? Like you were never gone at all? Whether it was nine days or ten, like this trip, or two, three, or sometimes even eight months, like others, when you come “home”, it’s almost always like - you were never away. Everything is so familiar. Nothing has changed - no matter how rich, how challenging, how eventful, how life-chang
Anthony Bourdain, a Reflective Appreciation
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Me and Miles at Slugs’ in the Far East
I’m walking down an empty, dark street in Alphabet City somewhere in the East Village of Lower Manhattan. I’m looking for Slugs’ in the Far East, the coolest jazz club in New York, at 242 East Third Street between Avenues B and C. Hence the moniker “Alphabet City”. It’s the late 1960s and the neighborhood is run down and dilapidated, sporting six-floor walkup tenement buildings with broken windows, a preying ground for desperate junkies who rove the streets like hungry jackals. I’m still a college student, but I’m in the process of metamorphosing from a Baby Boom suburban kid
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Ahoy there, Maties! I know, I know! No recent posts on this blog site. That's because all my recent efforts have gone into creating my new travel podcast, also with the same name as this blog: "e-travels with e. trules". It's been a really exciting and educational journey to learn a new craft in a new medium, podcasting! I'd like to give a shout out to the people who both inspired me and helped me take this new turn in the artistic road. First, thanks to Jonathan Munoz Proulx, my former USC student, who when he came to my reading at Beyond Baroque in 2015, exclaimed,
Itinerant Days at NYC’s Hotel Woodward
The Hotel Woodward. 55th and Broadway. New York City. 1977. I lived there on 7th floor. Around the corner from the famous Carnegie Deli on 55th and Seventh. Best corned beef on rye in Manhattan. Piled half a foot high. Better than the Stage Deli's 2 blocks down Seventh Avenue, better than Ratner's on Delancey Street, better even than The Second Avenue Deli in the East Village. Two blocks uptown from The Woodward was the temple of classical music itself, Carnegie Hall, at 57th Street and 7th Avenue, with the still-operative Carnegie Cinema, where you could catch a classic double feat
Friendships Across the Aisle
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