City Escape Dreamers Pillows

Rural Life - Uninvited guests

Very Happy balloons are leaving a city to be received by very happy clouds.

"I won't be in today. I've decided to live off the land."

Entering Megalopolis - next Bucolic area 162 miles.

"Don't these fools realize they're violating every principle of feng-shui?"

'Lookout, here comes another boatload of cartoonists.'

Eric Adams Caricature

"I packed the cooking gear like you told me, Dad...where do I plug it in?"

'A couple of trees, a few shrubs...it started just like any other atrium.'

"I wish there was a way to get out of the city this summer without leaving Manhattan."

Life is simpler in the sticks.

Entering New York City - Check it out

"Crap. I overslept."

A Bubble of Countryside.

Single Family Home Sanctuary

View of the sea - 'One day son, all this will be houses.'

'I realize this has been your favorite camping spot since you were a kid...but it's just not the same with all the construction over the years.'

"I've had to leave the city: the noise pollution was making it difficult for me to fly safely..."

"Sure makes a change from New York!"

"I told you everyone was moving out of the city!"

Flying Coach Beating Traffic

'This off-shore tax avoidance isn't as glamorous as I thought it would be.'

Glad we moved out of the City

New York Cab

Forget what the warden says. If we try to please everyone, we'll end up with an escape plan that pleases no one.

"It's amazing. I hear some of them can endure the same boring, pointless positions for years on end!"

'I think there's something wrong with our navigational system, because judging by the icebergs, I don't think we're in the Caribbean.'

Did Mitch Dream about his office in Barbados, or did he dream about Barbados in his office?

Catskills

"We're moving back out to the country."

"Do you think people had a nice time?"

'Inner-city kids in search of a butter life.'

Country Air.

Times Square

"And if things don't work out in the big city, Cindy, you can always come back home to me and Mom and our nightmare descent into booze and pills."