The Amtrak Southwest Chief runs daily between Chicago and Los Angeles, through the vast expanse of the fabled American West.
I decided to take my wife this time. It is August 2014. Our first time Westbound. We decided to visit our son in Los Angeles. We took the Missouri River Runner to Kansas City and then changed to the Southwest Chiefwith direct service to Los Angeles. A 42 hour trip in all, following the route of the Atchison Topeka and Santé Fe, with stops in Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Barstow and San Bernardino. The Missouri River Runner follows the Missouri river through Jefferson City, the state capital to Kansas City.Continue reading →
English: Nile left bank between Edfu and Kom Ombo, Egypt Français : Rive gauche du Nil entre Edfou et Kom Ombo, Égypte (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Egyptian National Railways train with EMD G22W AC locomotive 3996 on the Luxor -Aswan line on the banks of the river Nile between Edfu and Kom Ombo. Nederlands: Egyptian National Railways trein met EMD G22W AC locomotief 3996 op de Luxor -Aswan lijn langs de Nijl tussen Edfu en Kom Ombo. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Residential section of the Machu Picchu, Peru. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
English: Feluccas near Kom Ombo, Egypt Français : Felouques près de Kom Ombo, Égypte (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
In her excellent catalogue essay, Dabrowski makes us see that all of these biographical strands are somehow manifest in the “Compositions.” The early ethnological studies in Russia, which culminated in a paper published in 1889 on the pagan religions of the Zyrians, a Finno-Ugric tribe in northeastern Siberia, are distantly reflected in what Dabrowski sees as the vibrant color and veiled, shamanistic imagery of the “Compositions.” Kandinsky’s early love of Wagner, and his epiphanic experience of hearing Lohengrin in Moscow in 1896, comes back in the recurring musical metaphor of the paintings; Dabrowski compares these paintings to works by Scriabin and Schoenberg, both acquaintances of the artist.
I decided to take my wife this time. It is August 2014. Our first time Westbound. We decided to visit our son in Los Angeles. We took the Missouri River Runner to Kansas City and then changed to the Southwest Chief with direct service to Los Angeles. A 42 hour trip in all, following the route of the Atchison Topeka and Santé Fe, with stops in Albuquerque, Flagstaff, Barstow and San Bernardino. The Missouri River Runner follows the Missouri river through Jefferson City, the state capital to Kansas City.
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