STL DPB ON THE ROAD - IF I CAN MAKE IT THERE...

Maybe I should say if I can pay for it there, I can pay for it anywhere. What the hell, I'm retired. This money only has to last me for the rest of my life. 

Visitors to New York have several options for sky high observation decks these days. When I was a kid everyone went to the Empire State Building, seen here on the right. Yesterday we went to a new one called, appropriately enough, The Summit, at a gigantic building next to Grand Central Station, One Vanderbilt Place. (Yes, the same Vanderbilt as in the Monopoly game. Anyway, see https://summitov.com/). I must say that I was impressed. We will probably see more of this.    

STL DPB ON THE ROAD - THE TOUR CONTINUES

The Tale of Two Cities Tour has reached its second destination. According to some claptrap written many years ago by Sir Walter Scott:

Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!

Well, it is. Out on the town today and the Metropolitan Opera tonight.

GEE BUT IT'S GREAT TO BE BACK HOME

Or so sang Paul Simon, a Queens boy like me, many years ago. I left for college in St. Louis 52 years ago but this is still the place where, metaphorically, I kiss the soil. There is some, you know, under the asphalt and concrete.

Top, the Empire State Building from 6th Avenue and about 43rd Street. Below, the police station in Times Square. There is a lot going on in that picture if you look carefully.