literary travel Archives

Literary Travel: Chicago

It’s summer, and that means it’s time to travel! I’d never been to Chicago, and that seemed like reason enough to go for a short break and explore the city. Sue met me there and we did our best to see as many literary sights as we could cram in. Come with us on a tour of the Windy City. It's Literary Travel: Chicago edition! Chicago 101 The third most populous city in the U.S. (after New York and Los Angeles), Chicago has about 2.7 million residents; the greater metro area has about 10 million. O’Hare International Airport is the [...]

Literary Travel: Buenos Aires, Argentina

The third and final stop on our South American trip, after Montevideo and Cordoba, was Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Well, we’d been to and from the airport a few times by this point, but that hardly counts.) My #1 vacation activity is museums, so I was particularly excited to visit the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, MALBA, and the Museo Evita, among others. Buenos Aires 101 The capital of Argentina as well as its largest city, Buenos Aires has about 15.5 million people in the greater metro area. Oddly enough, though, it’s not part of Buenos Aires Province — the city [...]