When visiting (or moving to!) a new city for one of a million reasons under the sun, or else to feel less like we’ve been in the place we live too long, we’ve often found we seek out hotels: for reassurance, either to feel like we have arrived, or to feel like we’re brand new; for convenience; for W.C.s, stationery and sewing kits, climate control, and anonymity; especially for adventures and trysts.
For HOTELS we're covering up and strapping on our sandals, and we’re heading back to town to visit our favorite homes away from home - well, and to think about our reasons for patronizing them. So onward we march (and swim, wade, frolic, read, drink, and cook) into my favorite month: July.