Dispatches · August 19, 2025

A guided tour through Roosevelt Island and Central Park revealed New York at its most layered—aerial tram, smallpox ruins, asylum history, Nellie Bly’s legacy, banana pudding, Bethesda Terrace, model boats, the Ramble, and Belvedere Castle…a not-quite-full-day tour with full-day density.

Postcards · August 13, 2025

Twelve years after first visiting the High Line, we returned to find Manhattan transformed around it. What began as abandoned freight infrastructure and accidental wilderness is now surrounded by luxury towers, public art, and Hudson Yards spectacle. Somehow, though, the old rails and wild grass still manage to steal everyone’s attention.

Postcards · August 09, 2025

An hour north on the subway leads to one of New York City’s most unexpected landscapes. The New York Botanical Garden mixes Victorian glasshouses, old-growth forest, and thousands of blooming roses into a 250-acre living collection where plant science and public parkland coexist—if you’re willing to ride the subway long enough to find it.

Postcards · March 14, 2025

We signed up for a small group tour to Celestún mostly because the timing worked and the weather looked decent. Also, I was promised flamingos…