What We Loved This Week: ‘Shipping Out,’ Joan Didion and the Last Roll of Kodachrome Film
Travel Blog • World Hum • 08.06.10 | 4:48 PM ET
Frank Bures
I loved this story about Steve McCurry (of green-eyed-Afghan-refugee-girl fame) going around the world with the very last-ever produced roll of Kodachrome film, shooting pictures on it in Italy, Turkey, India and other places. The end of an era.
Jeffrey Tayler
I’m afraid I’ve had a very negative week, with Czech Airlines fouling up my return reservation to Moscow from Paris, and then arriving in Moscow itself. It’s now so smoky we’ve closed our windows, and it’s almost 100 degrees inside. ... So there isn’t anything I’ve loved in travel this week.
Jim Benning
I’ve been reading Joan Didion’s heartbreaking memoir, The Year of Magical Thinking. I loved this anecdote she included about her daughter, Quintana: “All PSA planes had smiles painted on their noses. ... When Quintana at age two or three flew PSA to Sacramento to see my mother and father she referred to it as ‘going on the smile.’”
Michael Yessis
A list of all-time best magazine articles has been making the rounds online in the last couple weeks. Yup, David Foster Wallace’s Shipping Out (pdf) is on it and, yup, I got sucked in yet again by the all-red leisure suit with flared lapels and the image of 500 upscale Americans dancing the Electric Slide.
Eva Holland
I loved bringing home leftovers from a tasty restaurant meal in Skagway, AK—certainly the first time I’ve taken a doggy bag across an international border. Somehow, despite the frequency with which I cross the Yukon-Alaska border these days, I still get a kick out of it each time.
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