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Timing Is Everything

It’s always fun to read “Three Perfect Days,” but we like it best when the readers are actually heading to the featured destination. That was the case for Rob Peralta. “On a recent United premium service fl ight from LAX to JFK, I was reading the September Hemispheres and stumbled upon ‘Three Perfect Days in Paris,’ which was well timed, since I was heading out to Paris the following week,” he writes. “I read the sidebar about Wendy Lyn’s food tours around Paris, and thanks to infl ight internet I went ahead and emailed Wendy to see if she could fi t me in for a tour when we got there. She responded seconds later, and we worked out a food tour before I landed at JFK!” Now that’s a tasty story. Over at hemispheresmagazine. com, commenter Louise Steinbach offered her own Three Perfect Days in Los Angeles (October): “A day at the Getty, night in Hollywood; a morning and afternoon hiking in Runyon Canyon, and a night in Hollywood. Then a whole day and night in Malibu!” Sounds like fun, Louise; we’ll travel with you anytime.

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TOM CHIARELLA A visiting professor of creative writing at DePaw University and writer-at-large for Esquire, Chiarella has had a lifelong affair with golf (as chronicled in “Golf: A Love Story,” page 50). “I haven’t met a golf course that hasn’t shown me at least some affection,” he says. “That keeps me coming back.” JOSH COCHRAN The onetime Print magazine “New Visual Artist (20 under 30)” winner recently painted an Eames chair for Herman Miller and designed a cover for Penguin Books. Of roller coasters (“Roller Derby,” page 78), he says, “Space Mountain at Disneyland is my alltime favorite.” CHRISTINA COUCH The freelance writer and global nomad moves to a different city every three months or so. Her writing has appeared in Wired, The Onion AV Club and Time Out Chicago. “I lived in Sydney (“Whirlwind,” page 38) for about four months,” she says. “The physical beauty is astounding.”

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