August 29
In both business and personal life, I’ve always found that travel inspires me more than anything else I do. Evidence of the languages, cultures, scenery, food, and design sensibilities that I discover all over the world can be found in every piece of my jewelry. ~ Ivanka Trump
“Camp, (noun): a place with temporary accommodations of huts, tents, or other structures, typically used by soldiers, refugees, prisoners, or travelers.” Every year for many years the Super and I have spent the first week in August at Camp Brosius in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin (thus, always missing the Resorters at home, the largest match play golf tournament in the country with over 500 players). It’s an Indiana University alumni camp that runs for 8 weeks each summer, turning over about 100 campers per week. Ruthie and Rita are both IU alums. And our group has always been week 8. ~ Me
No matter where you go, there you are. ~ Proverb
July 28
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable. ~ Clifton Fadiman
[All our bags were packed, we were ready to go . . . ]
Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. ~ Paul Theroux
[We have developed a habit of spending a night (two nights this year) in Sheboygan before checking into camp at 1:00 on Sunday. Sheboygan is a 475 mile, 7 1/2 drive from Alexandria with one lunch and one gas stop . . . ]
I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little. ~ Christopher Hitchens
[The view out our window in the Inn of Sheboygan. The humpback whales there last year came back again this year . . . ]
I think a major element of jetlag is psychological. Nobody ever tells me what time it is at home. ~ David Attenborough
Paris is always a good idea. ~ Audrey Hepburn
[We went out to dinner on the Sheboygan waterfront after checking in – Lake Michigan in the distance . . . ]
The Ritz in London has an old-fashioned charm, with waiters wearing tails and white gloves. The dining room is exquisite, with immaculate service and ornate details. ~ Anton du Beke
[At Parker John’s BBQ and Pizza, a regular stop on the waterfront tour . . . ]
Dining should be something that isn’t always taken extremely seriously. ~ Graham Elliot
[Not to be outdone by her younger sister . . . ]
Dining with a married couple can be uncomfortable. ~ Carice van Houten
[Rita was enjoying a little “Sex on the Farm” . . . ]
A lot of Americans say the food in England sucks. I don’t think the food in England sucks – the food is great – but I’ve got to say, the Americans have got the dining out experience nailed down. ~ Michael Bisping
[The Super had a similarly-named sangria – we just can’t recall the name . . . ]
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. ~ Marcel Proust
Life is like a roller coaster, live it, be happy, enjoy life. ~ Avril Lavigne
[I forget what Beth (Rita’s daughter) ordered, but she remembered it was what she ordered last year . . . ]
So long as you have food in your mouth, you have solved all questions for the time being. ~ Franz Kafka
[Otherwise known as a light snack . . . ]
June 29
Innovations that are guided by smallholder farmers, adapted to local circumstances, and sustainable for the economy and environment will be necessary to ensure food security in the future. ~ Bill Gates
[Day 2: A farmers’ market in the park across the street from our motel . . . ]
The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
I restore myself when I’m alone. ~ Marilyn Monroe
You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food. ~ Paul Prudhomme
Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside. ~ Mark Twain
[Beth and “The Biddies” ISO – food . . . ]
I have struck a city – a real city – and they call it Chicago… I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. ~ Rudyard Kipling
When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it’s your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else. Most people in the city rush around so, they have no time to look at a flower. I want them to see it whether they want to or not. ~ Georgia O’Keeffe
The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. ~ Demond Morris
A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams. ~ Herb Caen
[Ruthie with a young man at the Positivity Booth . . . ]
Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake. ~ Wallace Stevens
[The Super and Beth on a stroll around Lake Michigan . . . ]
My Mom said she learned how to swim when someone took her out in the lake and threw her off the boat. I said, ‘Mom, they weren’t trying to teach you how to swim.’ ~ Paula Poundstone
[You will meet Charley (Beth’s nephew) later in this screed. On his later walk here he lost his glasses when struck by a wave (later replaced at a same day glasses establishment) . . . ]
Exercise is really important to me – it’s therapeutic. So if I’m ever feeling tense or stressed or like I’m about to have a meltdown, I’ll put on my iPod and head to the gym or out on a bike ride along Lake Michigan with the girls. ~ Michelle Obama
One of my favorite places on the planet is a place in northern Michigan: Long Lake in Traverse City. ~ Gregory H. Johnson
[Beth may be looking for a yacht to take back to San Diego . . . ]
I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o’clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time. ~ Garrison Keillor
When I sell liquor, it’s called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it’s called hospitality. ~ Al Capone
[“The Biddies” provide scale for an ancient wooden boat wreck . . . ]
Whether or not we can save Lake Michigan, whether or not we can avoid a breakdown in our criminal justice system are more important than whether or not I’m going to be governor. ~ Bill Scott
When you’re working on a lake and it’s dark and cold out and you can’t see what’s underwater, it is freaking scary! ~ Jessica Szohr
[We learned this breakwater had just been completed – a nice half mile walk to the end . . . ]
I remember going out alone in a canoe. Somebody told me to lie in the bottom of the canoe and just drift. It was a small lake and I was perfectly safe. So I did that, and I drifted. It was quiet and peaceful. Suddenly, I heard a loon cry the first time I ever heard that marvelous sound. ~ Lorne Greene
[There is a Coast Guard station to their left . . . ]
L.A. is great, but it’s a completely different beast. I go back to Minnesota, and I borrow a bike from my neighbor and go around Lake Harriet saying ‘Hi’ to people. Some of that is missing in L.A. ~ Yara Shahidi
[Looking back from whence we came . . . ]
When I was a boy, one of my uncles had a cabin on a lake in Wisconsin. My family went there for parts of three summers, and I loved it! ~ Kevin Henkes
[Hiking to the end of the breakwater with a group of our close personal friends . . . ]
I’m definitely writing my fears. It’s almost therapeutic to at least voice a terror, to say, ‘I’m worried that Lake Powell looks low and Lake Mead looks even lower.’ ~ Paolo Bacigalupi
[Rita and I followed behind to make sure nobody got lost . . . ]
My ideal date would involve a park or rowing in those little boats on a lake. ~ Aja Naomi King
[Ruthie, Beth, and Rita, not realizing if you’re 3 or more you may be considered a cabal, or even worse, an LLC . . . ]
When I was a kid, getting on Lake Shore Drive from the south side to go downtown was magical. ~ Jamila Woods
An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse, the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some point you’ll break the monotony by falling in. ~ W. Bruce Cameron
[Just “The Biddies” and me . . . ]
No hidden talents, but I have a lot of hobbies. Acrylic painting – I got a whole set, and I light candles at night and sit there and paint and look out on Lake Michigan. ~ Christen Press
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. ~ Francis Bacon
[This is the end . . . ]
Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. ~ Maya Angelou
[Auntie and niece . . . ]
I am not a great cook, I am not a great artist, but I love art, and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller. ~ Michael Palin
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. ~ Oscar Wilde
[Ooh-la-la . . . ]
If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all. ~ Dan Rather
Never go on trips with anyone you do not love. ~ Ernest Hemingway
[This is an anchor. Undoubtedly from a boat. From Lake Michigan . . . ]
My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings. ~ Yayoi Kusama
Sculpture is the art of the intelligence. ~ Pablo Picasso
Sculpture is an art of the open air. Daylight, sunlight, is necessary to it, and for me, its best setting and complement is nature. ~ Henry Moore
[We had no idea about this place – it turned out to be a real highlight . . . ]
Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture. ~ Michelangelo
Sculpture is the art of the hole and the lump. ~ Auguste Rodin
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. ~ Joseph Addison
Moonlight is sculpture. ~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I look at every piece of furniture and every object as an individual sculpture. ~ Kelly Wearstler
Architecture is inhabited sculpture. ~ Constantin Brancusi
The art of mastering life is the prerequisite for all further forms of expression, whether they are paintings, sculptures, tragedies, or musical compositions. ~ Paul Klee
At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture. ~ Martin Puryear
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art. ~ Santiago Calatrava
[Peek-a-boo . . . ]
Sculpture is something you bump into when you back up to look at a painting. ~ Ad Reinhardt
[Here’s looking at yourself, kid . . . ]
It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it’s a painting, and if you can walk around it it’s a sculpture. ~ Tom Stoppard
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. ~ Henry David Thoreau
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. ~ Pablo Picasso
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see. ~ Edgar Degas
There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ~ Ansel Adams
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer
Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad. ~ Salvador Dali
Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It’s the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe. ~ Philip Guston
I used to think that the great thing about sculpture was that, like Stonehenge, it was something that stood against time in an adamantine way, and was an absolute mass in space. Now I try to use the language of architecture to re-describe the body as a place. ~ Antony Gormley
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. ~ Alexander Calder
When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us. ~ Robert Smithson
The skull is nature’s sculpture. ~ David Bailey
It’s hard for people to understand editing, I think. It’s absolutely like sculpture. You get a big lump of clay, and you have to form it – this raw, unedited, very long footage. ~ Thelma Schoonmaker
If you look at sculptures from hundreds of years ago, everyone’s naked. It’s not a bad thing. ~ Gigi Hadid
[Thoughts and prayers . . . ]
I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it’s very physical. ~ P. J. Harvey
A sculpture is just a painting cut out and stood up somewhere. ~ Frank Stella
Take a relief. You draw it, you carve it out. Later you build it up from a flat surface. There is no other way to do a sculpture – you either add or you subtract. ~ Urs Fischer
I’ll bet there are a lot of artists that nobody hears about who just make more money than anybody. The people that do all the sculptures and paintings for big building construction. We never hear about them, but they make more money than anybody. ~ Andy Warhol
[Otherwise known as two babes in the woods . . . ]
Sculptures created from found materials like ice and thorns, driftwood, and even bleached kangaroo bones all presuppose that artistic design will yield to the cycles of time and climate, whether over an hour or a decade. ~ Simon Schama
In our own time it has been seen… that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. ~ Georgio Vasari
[The artist-in-residence is from the State of Virginia. At least that’s what the car license plate said . . . ]
I have no conceit as a writer; in fact, I find it very difficult to start writing about sculpture generally & my aims in particular. ~ Henry Moore
[This is the road side sign indicating the place name – no wonder we drove by it twice before we noticed it . . . ]
Art is an expression of who you are. Parts that I play are my sculptures. ~ Kim Cattrall
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~ Saint Augustine
[Driving back to Sheboygan along the lakeshore drive . . . ]
Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. ~ Susan Sontag
Fine dining is an occasional treat for most people. ~ Rene Redzepi
[Over the years has become our regular “pig out” place. Ed, in the foreground, will soon be introduced . . . ]
Shared dining fortifies us. ~ Deng Ming-Dao
The biggest piece is my family… From watching films like The Godfather on our dining room wall, to having a great relationship with my sibling. Or going on weekend trips with our cousins to the beach and eating all day… it’s been a crazy childhood; a ‘bohemian one’. ~ Zoya Akhtar
[Group thoughts prior to placing orders . . . ]
History has long had a wall up between the kitchen and the dining room. Front of house, back of house – one group always wielded more power and influence. ~ Daniel Humm
[A glance around the room . . . ]
If Broadway shows charge preview prices while the cast is in dress rehearsal, why should restaurants charge full price when their dining room and kitchen staffs are still practicing? ~ Marian Burros
[Across the street from “the pig” . . . ]
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. ~ Mark Twain
I painted one dining room red and I must say, the conversation became very heated in that room. ~ Amanda Pays
[My meal was sans pig . . . ]
The world of fine dining can be frightening, if it’s not what you grew up in. I think when the doors are just thrown open, and you’re given the confidence to step into that world without any barriers at all, and you’re made to feel very welcome in it, that you belong, then it’s no longer as frightening. ~ Monica Galetti
[Ruthie & Rita, front and center, long time attendees at Camp Brosius; Ed and Elke (across from Rita) have attended Camp Brosius several times, are Chris’s parents from Ohio. Chris and Beth (Rita’s daughter) are on the back right and have been to Camp many, many times. In the middle of the table both sides are Chris’s sister, Emily, her husband, Shane, and their two boys, Henry and Charley – they are from England and this is their first visit to Camp (when we asked how would we know their kids, we were advised they have an accent). Chris’s other sister and family from California had yet to arrive for, I believe, their second Camp visit . . . ]
The dining room in my old house was truly magnificent, but by far the worst room for conversation. I’d get up from the table, a very long table, and somebody would always say, Paul, I never got to talk to you. ~ Paul Lynde
We were saving, saving, saving then going to France and blowing the money eating. She was a nurse and had never experienced fine dining but she loved it, too. Our mates thought it absurd. ~ Heston Blumenthal
If you’re dining with someone who wants the same cut, it’s always better to get a 16-ounce steak and split it than to order two eight-ounce steaks. The longer something cooks, the more flavor it develops, so you’ll get a better taste with a bigger piece of meat. ~ Tom Colicchio
By itself, tofu is like wet foam rubber, but you’d no more eat it by itself and expect fine dining than you would stare at a blank canvas and expect to see fine art. ~ Victoria Moran
[The trick to a meal with a group of this size is to figure out how many things were left behind upon departure . . . ]
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. ~ Martin Buber
[Drat, we were a week early for ABBA . . . ]
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water. ~ W. C. Fields
[Back at our motel, a whole block “the pig.” This unique playground, just outside motel room window, had a soft, spongy floor(?) . . . ]
Wherever you go, go with all your heart. ~ Confucius
Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. ~ Frank Borman
[Ed took a crack at it, too . . . ]
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ~ Lin Yutang
[We left Sheboygan as we found Sheboygan . . . ]
Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. ~ Henny Youngman
[With mama and baby humpback whale . . . ]
I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles. ~ Audrey Hepburn
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life. ~ Albert Camus
Up Next: Well, I’ve posted two full days, and we’re not even at camp yet . . .
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