What We Loved This Week: ‘The Remains of the Day,’ ‘Viva Las Vegas’ and ‘Telluride on Acid’

Travel Blog  •  World Hum  •  01.15.10 | 6:17 PM ET

Eva Holland
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro. The subtle, funny and very sad story of an aging butler looking back on his life’s work as he travels around England’s West Country reminded me, among other things, that it’s been far too long since I’ve visited the U.K.

Allison Otto
My hometown of Bisbee, Arizona, got some love as an affordable, winter weekend escape in Outside Magazine. It was also very poetically and aptly described as “Telluride on acid.”

Michael Yessis
In honor of Elvis Presley’s birthday, I watched Viva Las Vegas all the way through for the first time. So horribly mesmerizing. And as Eva and Eli wrote in their list of five great Elvis travel movies, “If you’re a fan of 1960s-vintage Vegas, it’s hard to top the opening titles.”

Jim Benning
The grey whales are making their journey up the California coast from their winter birthing grounds in Baja California, and I spotted a couple of them off San Diego the other day, their skin glistening just above the water’s surface, their blowhole-spray shooting skyward. I was out running errands in my car, listening to horrific radio reports out of Haiti. The sight took my breath away and reminded me just how beautiful the world can be, even at times like this.

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2 Comments for What We Loved This Week: ‘The Remains of the Day,’ ‘Viva Las Vegas’ and ‘Telluride on Acid’

TambourineMan 01.16.10 | 3:16 AM ET

Any other week, Yessis would’ve won the What We Loved contest. But Senor Benning beats him with the whales. Well done, sir. Much love for Mexico.

TambourineMan 01.16.10 | 1:51 PM ET

I meant “much love for Haiti”

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