Buying the New Yorker - Page 75

I was starting to guess that the final total for this project would be somewhere in the low five figures. Hah. Swann Galleries is auctioning off a Rembrandt. Or was - the auction date was January 25th, but good news for you, internet visitor: It didn't sell! You still have a chance!

Rembrandt, "The Windmill" etching, 1641 - $40,000 (average auction estimate)

To raise interest in Monk, a detective with OCD, you can go take a quiz to see if you have OCD as well. I took the test, and found myself to be "a little Monk-ish." Good on me.

Internet quiz - free

Kiawah Island is off the coast of South Carolina. It is apparently "vibrant" and possesses "a Rousseau-like natural charm." When I went to the "calendar of events" I found a blank space (but there was a link to a calendar for nearby Charleston) so that's possibly not a good sign. But there's opportunity to play both golf and tennis. So really how can you lose?

One bedroom rental for one night (with lagoon views) - $429.28

Throwing Kiawah Island into sharp relief is this opportunity to canoe in the Canadian Arctic:

Explore the Thelon River and other pristine, wild, tundra rivers hundreds of miles from the nearest road or community. Teeming wildlife including muskoxen, white wolves (our specialty), moose, grizzlies and caribou herds that stretch to the horizons. Warm, dry, sun-drenched summers; gin-clear rivers; green tundra hills blanketed with tiny wildflowers; huge spruce-studded eskers; some of the best sand beaches on the planet; birds everywhere; virgin fishing.

I'll bet there's no golf or tennis.

11 day canoe trip not including airfare - $2,134.00

Running total - $52,746.58