Urban Escapists Gifts

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

"You know what I like about L.A.? We don't have to be interesting anymore."

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

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

"Could you go back to the front desk? The receptionist has some forms for you to fill out."

The inhabitants of the jungle get tied up in rush hour traffic.

Welcome To New York City...Subject to the following conditions.

"You've got those Stuck-in-the-Subway-Listening-to-a-Guy-Massacre-Dylan Blues."

"I thought they were cracking down on jaywalking."

'I solved the problem of dead zones on my cell phone with a personal satellite,'

Serenading

Push for Disco...

"I'm starting my own movement—Occupy Fifty-Seventh Street."

An alleyway leads to a scenic area.

"How do you know you don't like New York if you've never even tasted it?"

New York Netherworld

"Hey, I just consider myself very fortunate to be getting paid for something I'd be doing anyway."

'No hay, no grooming, no mucking out and they live in the broom cupboard!'

Stork and baby discover scarecrows

"I'll be a bit late... sorry."

'Follow that cab!'

Thumbing a Lift.

"That's you nomad's answer to everything...ROAD TRIP!"

Vacation Bus Photo

"I'm thinking of leaving these crowded condos and going to a place that's been deserted for years...the mall."

'Whoa! This was supposed to be an easy merit badge!'

"Everybody on the bus today was played by Anthony Hopkins."

Giant gorilla peers at female victim. She says into cellphone: "I can't talk now, he's right here."

Entering Megalopolis - next Bucolic area 162 miles.

"I told you we'd be better off taking Canal."

Manhattan Cat atop the Flatiron Building

Things that go beep in the night.

"Well, do you want to buy this sofa or not? You've been on it for three days!"

"If the universe is expanding, that's all the more reason to get back to the city."

'We're very tight on space right now but we'll have you in an office as soon as we can. Meanwhile. . .'