Seen on Relox, San Miguel de Allende, Apr 2016
As a wayfinding professional, I am impressed by these two sorting out the streets of San Miguel at this early age. Sticking out your tongue of course always helps.
From the Campesino
Fruit and Flower Vendor, San Miguel, Apr 2016
Our street ends in a small square, or rather triangle, where the buses stop and Insurgentes lurches to the right. An ideal place for folks from the outlying campesinos to bus in and sell fruit, vegetables, flowers, and all manner of other stuff to folks just passing. The fountain, like most fountains in San Miguel, no longer works, but provides a great place to sit.
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The Sidewalks of San Miguel
Sidewalk on Organos, San MIguel de Allende
San Miguel de Allende is famous for its narrow sidewalks, the standard width being about two feet. But even that doesn’t help very much as sidewalks here are basically just a zone for accommodating steps, utility poles, and garbage. You soon get very good at hopping sideways.
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Viernes de Dolores and Tacos
Taco truck, Mesones, San Miguel de Allende, March 2016
It’s Holy week again here in San Miguel, beginning tonight with Viernes de Dolores, the Friday of Sorrows. The streets are all closed to traffic around us in Centro while everyone is out viewing the shrines built in house doorways. Visiting the local taco trucks like this one behind the Templo de San Francisco is also an essential part of the celebrations.
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Broadway and 92nd Street
Broadway and 92nd Street, New York, Mar 2016
Another in a series of everyday life in New York.
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It Isn’t Sticking
West 92nd Street, New York, March 2016
Just another New York pic. At this time of the year the warm street surface melts the snow so it doesn’t stick, but it still improves the look of the parked vehicles.
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All Sorts
Uptown M11 Bus, West 80th Street, New York, Feb 2016
New York is probably one of the best examples of a multi-racial society. You never know who you may be sharing a bus with. Most of us identify as New Yorkers first and foremost, and whatever else comes in second. Amazingly, we all get along together even though we are packed cheek to jowl. That’s what makes America great, or at least, parts of it – not walls to keep all these wonderful different cultures out.
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Wet and Windy
Broadway and 91st Street, New York, Feb 2016
Snow last night, wet and windy today. Taken on Broadway and 91st Street, outside Barzini’s. But at least it’s warmer.
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Way to Go
Guy Marcellus, Via driver, New York, Jan 2016
Snowing again in New York, but this time only enough to make everything look nice. Here, Guy Marcellus, our Haitian Via driver today heads downtown on Broadway. If you don’t know Via, check them out. Anywhere below 110 street for just five bucks during weekdays, and no tipping. As they are usually shared rides, you also get some interesting New Yorkers to meet, including the drivers. Most of them, with their black SUVs, work for Uber on the weekend and Via during weekdays. You get the same everything for a fraction of the price and they arrive about five minutes after hailing them on your smartphone app. Hardly costs more than the bus or subway, a lot quicker, and you get more or less to where you are actually going.
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Marvis Martin
Marvis Martin, New York, Jan 2016
One of the many great things about New York is you never know who you will bump into. Today, we ended up waiting for the M104 bus with Marvis Martin, an operatic soprano and protegée of Alice Tully, who performs here at the Met. She is showing us a photo of her and her mother she had just had framed.
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