What We Loved This Week: Tijuana Art, Canadian Road Tripping, The New Yorker’s Food Issue and More
Travel Blog • World Hum • 11.20.09 | 5:11 PM ET
Rolf Potts
On Tuesday I traveled to Metuchen, New Jersey, for a reading at The Raconteur Bookshop. It was the first time I’ve read publicly from Where No Travel Writer Has Gone Before, and I recruited audience members to read the Kirk, Spock, McCoy, and Uhura lines from the fantasy sequence in Part Two. They did great, and the whole reading proved quite a hoot.
Jim Benning
I loved poking around Tijuana yesterday, checking out artwork hung on the border fence near Playas de Tijuana. The paintings have been there for some time, but the white crosses at right in the photo are among 5,000 that were hung only a few weeks ago to commemorate the Day of the Dead and those who have died on the journey north. It’s a powerful, sobering scene.
Photo by Jim BenningEva Holland
I loved the first leg of my ongoing trans-Canada road trip, a long haul through northern Ontario that was punctuated by glorious views of Lake Superior and some homegrown roadside Canadiana. We may not be home to the world’s largest ball of twine, true—but I seriously doubt there’s a larger steel sculpture of a Canada goose than the one in Wawa, Ontario:
Photo by Eva HollandMichael Yessis
The New Yorker’s excellent food issue, with the usual dose of great writing from Calvin Trillin (not online, unfortunately) and John Colapinto’s intriguing tag along with Michelin inspector “Maxime” in New York City.
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Francisco Reatas 11.21.09 | 10:15 PM ET
Thank you for your respectful comment, Mr Benning, Tijuana needs all the friends she can get.
The Real Tijuana is a blog that began this month in order to describe Baja California from the inside. People who actually live in Tijuana address issues of local culture, medicine, cuisine, and history with the goal of making tourism less intimidating and more rewarding. The place is surprisingly peaceable in spite of the bad press.
Jim Benning 11.23.09 | 10:46 AM ET
Thanks, Francisco. I look forward to reading your blog—it’s a great idea.
Canadian Tourism 11.25.09 | 1:42 AM ET
The Goose in Wawa is iconic and quite familiar to nearly anyone who has made a cross-Canada trip along the Trans-Canada Highway by car.
The World’s Biggest Dinosaur found in Drumheller (northeast of Calgary) is just as memorable:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/canadiantourism/3767313984/