Lauterbrunnen — Every year, the farmers bring the cows down from the mountains for winter. These were the last stragglers. We thought we’d missed them. The tradition of the cow parade led to the hats and to the tour...
Portland — I realized an incontrovertible fact recently: by watching the civic parades of Portland that I will always be an irreverent spy from that mysterious, boisterous symbolic, Dionysian life of New Orleans...
Columbia — I was swept up in a Gay Pride parade the other day. I didn’t know what was happening, at first. I had just dived back into writing a book, after over a month of being on the road, and started out una...
Carnival, The most famous holiday in Brazil. The first time I went to se the parade I was an adult.
Parades seen in Oregon, from a funky Nola perspective
Swept Up or Held Back
It's the annual cow parade, according to my Swiss wife.