course. "Guess where I am . . . right now?" He'll let me listen for a few
seconds to the sounds of waves lapping against beach, or of the car with
its top down, cruising down the main drag in South Beach. The bastard.
I'll be right here. Until they drag me off the line. I'm not going anywhere.
I hope. It's been an adventure. We took some casualties over the years.
Things got broken. Things got lost.
But I wouldn't have missed it for the world.
A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR
Anthony Bourdain is the author of the novels, Bone in the Throat and
Gone Bamboo. He is the executive chef at Brasserie Les Halles in New
York City.