Thursday, October 07, 2004
The F train is the coolest subway route in the Manhattan and I’ve only just discovered it! It goes from the ultra hip Lower East Side to the ultra conservative Mid Town East Side. The Lower East Side now has all those great bars and restaurants like ‘inoteca on Ludlow and Rivington. At 63rd Street and 3rd Avenue the F train has the most amazing entrance. You have to go down four separate long escalators, so deep into the interior of the earth. It is so different from the other lines that you feel like you are in some other city, maybe Washington, DC. Outside Manhattan it goes to two islands, Roosevelt Island (where I’ve never been) and Coney Island, and to Forest Hills.
Thursday, October 07, 2004
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
In his book Adventure Capitalist Jim Rogers mentions that in traveling through Gambia he saw many French, German, British and Swiss woman. At first he didn't understand why, then it soon became clear that they were there as what some are calling “romance tourists”. They came singly to pair up with young local men.
I am a bit surprised! Thinking some more about this reminds me of Truman Capote’s last book, Answered Prayers; it is about a gigolo who has relationships with both men and women in the literary and eventually the high society international crowds. Woman sometimes pay for sex too.
Tuesday, October 05, 2004
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