A first-time visit to Long Island and the Hamptons in June including a weekend at the Manhattan Waldorf Astoria, a drive through the Hamptons to the Lighthouse at the tip of Montauk, followed by another scenic drive through the northeastern wine country to Greenport.

I never thought I would like Las Vegas, back in a time when I didn’t understand casinos, the games, the way it all worked, and just how glamorous they could be. This wasn’t our first time in Las Vegas, but in some ways, it seemed like an age since we were there last; yet, when the iconic strip rolled by outside the windows of the Bellagio limousine, the rush of familiarity melted the time away.

“I walked the beach under the paling stars of the morning. My ties and ballasts leave me….I travel….I sail….my elbows rest in the sea-gaps.” Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“San Francisco has only one drawback, tis hard to leave” | Rudyard Kipling.