Guero’s Oak Garden on South Congress Avenue in Austin, TX.

Hotel San Jose on South Congress Avenue in Austin, TX.

One of the rooms inside Lustre Pearl. Austin, Texas.

Sixth Street at dusk. Downtown Austin.

South Congress Avenue, Austin.

Lustre Pearl in Austin. Happy hour heaven.

A cool facade on one of the corners of lively Sixth Street in downtown Austin near the Driskill Hotel.

The lobby of the Ace Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon.

Visited six Joie De Vivre hotels in San Francisco. This colorful anime- and Japanese pop-inspired property, Hotel Tomo, is in Japantown.

Bean tempura appetizer at The House in North Beach. Crunchy bliss indeed.

Parc Jean-Drapeau on Ile St. Helene on the St. Lawrence River in Montreal, Quebec. An afternoon at Piknic Electronik.

A facade in the Plateau of Montreal. How I miss this neighborhood…

Fell’s Point in Baltimore, Maryland. What a hot day that was…

A friend’s gorgeous home in the countryside of Maryland.

Overlooking the Wailua River and its surrounding lushness in Kauai, HI.