Stephanie Nikolopoulos's Blog, page 51
November 27, 2012
Blues.Gr Interviewed Me about the Beats and Greece!
What mistakes of the Beat Generation would I most like to correct? What role did Greek immigrants play in Jack Kerouac’s life? How would I spend a day with Gregory Corso? What does Greek philosophy have to do with Beat writing? Am I a Beat?? Find out my answers at Blues.Gr! Athens-based writer Michael Limnios [...]
November 24, 2012
Road Trip: Hitchhiking to the Mission
By the time my poor bus rolled into Carmel, the day was fading and the shops had closed their adorable doors. Music from a live concert rose up out of the heart of the main shopping plaza, and the moon made his appearance even though the sun hadn’t quite set yet. I was a [...]
November 23, 2012
Road Trip: Cannery Row
What’s a road trip to Monterey without a stop to Cannery Row?! I had read Cannery Row during my layover in Wisconsin so I was all prepared to visit John Steinbeck country. Filed under: Beat Generation Tagged: California Coast, Cannery Row, John Steinbeck, Northern California, road trip, travel, vacation
November 22, 2012
Thanksgiving and Lamenting
image via Burnside Writers Collective Super impressed by all of you who were already posting photos on Facebook last night of delicious-looking Thanksgiving food. I saw “papou’s stuffing” and “maple-glazed brussels sprouts” and pie galore. My family was always in charge of bringing dessert and liquor. We’d pick up the cake — no pie from [...]
November 21, 2012
The Next Big Thing Blog Hop
I am so excited to have been tagged by Maria Karamitsos for the The Next Big Thing Blog Hop. Even though I’m not a mother, I love reading Maria’s blog From the Mommy Files, which is full of humor and light. She has the gift of storytelling. Her blog entries read like snippets of a [...]
10 Quotes about Persevering and Finding Your Story
I’ve never been intimidated by a blank page or a brand new diary. When I was younger and in elementary school, I relished in-class writing assignments. Inspiration and ideas came easily to me, and I wrote fast and furious. Perhaps this is because I was a quiet student, who probably went days without speaking in [...]
November 20, 2012
Road Trip: Wine Tasting at Bargetto Winery
Nearly 90% of American wines come from California. While Napa and Sonoma Valley are the most recognizable names associated with California wine production, there are many other fertile regions for grape growing and winemaking throughout California. While I was in Monterey, I stopped by the Bargetto Winery shop for a little lesson [...]
November 19, 2012
Road Trip: Monterey
Most people associate John Steinbeck with Monterey. Many of his famous novels, including Cannery Row, were set in Monterey. Not surprisingly, there are many tributes to him in the toursity little town. Jack Kerouac also wrote about Monterey. One of the most beautiful passages about Monterey in Big Sur is: But it is beautiful especially to [...]
November 16, 2012
Road Trip: Garlic Capital of the World
The first road trip I ever took to San Francisco was with my best friend on spring break during college. As we were driving up from LA, she pointed out Gilroy, telling me that that’s where all the garlic is grown. She told me they even had a garlic festival! Here’s a bit about Gilroy, [...]
November 15, 2012
Road Trip: The Salad Bowl of the World
One of the reasons I was excited to travel the California coast from San Francisco to Monterey was because we’d pass Salinas. John Steinbeck and Jack Kerouac wrote about Salinas Valley. Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men was set in Salinas. In 1960, Kerouac published a piece called “The Vanishing American Hobo” in Holiday magazine, which in part said: [...]
