“Holdouts” are holding back my designation as a world-wide “travel expert.”   

In 2000, shortly after I started teaching at NYU,

I’m talking (and touring) Second Cities, not “second helpings,’’

When traveling to a country for the first time,

In our 14 years together I’ve taken you to cities around the world introducing

While Paris is enveloped in new sporting spaces for the Olympics,

When I visit an Olympic City past or present,

Watching TV’s The Gilded Age while in Chicago last month,