http://www.kudzutelegraph.com/taxonomy/term/222/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.kudzutelegraph.com/node/238 <p>Last week we spent a few days in Manhattan. While I was there I had flashes of previous trips to the City. There have been few enough so that all six or seven journeys north are memorable.</p> <p>In many ways a trip to New York City is about as different as life can get from living in the suburban upcountry of South Carolina. A trip there always feels like true travel to a foreign place. Strange things always happen. The energy comes in waves. There&#39;s the density-a million and a half people living in 22 square miles-but it&#39;s not the density that makes the air feel so different and strange in New York. It&#39;s the intense life of the island, the way the folkways and culture of the mythic place have developed their own rhythms and surprises. It&#39;s the power and the madness and the excitement.</p> <p><a href="http://www.kudzutelegraph.com/node/238">read more</a></p> http://www.kudzutelegraph.com/node/238#comment kudzu telegraph memoir new york travel Mon, 25 Feb 2008 08:28:33 -0500 John Lane 238 at http://www.kudzutelegraph.com