Time

WILMINGTON, Del. – Time is both relative and absolute. When my flight from Los Angeles landed in suburban Baltimore at 7:00 this morning, it was 4:00 a.m. in Klamath Falls, Oregon. It was also 5:00 a.m. in Whitefish, Montana; 6:00 a.m. at Wrigley Field in Chicago; and 12:00 p.m. at the Headingley Carnegie Cricket Ground [...]

Brick, ivy, oak and sand

When I headed out this morning, I figured that my first destination would be the highlight of the day: a guided tour of Wrigley Field. As has happened to millions of other baseball fans over the years, I fell in love with the place when I visited it for the first time last season. The [...]

That toddlin’ town

DEERFIELD, Ill. – What a day this was. I covered a lot of ground, from the Magnicficent Mile to Soldier Field and a lot of Millenium Park in between. Once again, I took a lot of pictures. You’ll find highlights within this post and the full batch here. I started in Deerfield with breakfast at [...]

Cubs win

DEERFIELD, Ill. – A very rare thing happened to me today: I experienced an event that exceeded my expectations for it. For all the prosaic writing I’ve read about Wrigley Field, as I got off the subway at Addison and Sheffield I couldn’t help thinking that I was nonetheless about to walk into the oldest [...]

Goals

CHICAGO – I’ve done a lot of travelogues before, and I have a bad habit of stating on the record that I intend to do an entry from somewhere. Most of the time I make myself live up to the promise, but every once in a while I forget, or the circumstances make it not [...]

Ohio and Indiana

WATERLOO, Ind. – Good morning… I set the alarm clock on my phone for 6 a.m., and rolled out of bed not too long after that. The sun hadn’t quite risen yet, but we were pulling into Toledo. Which meant I had to make sure the window curtain was totally shut, and it was. We [...]