A few years later after many more travel and film and book related pieces in The GATE, my dream of getting to write a book on hotel living and hotel culture looked like it might be coming around. My grand idea was to live in the Royal York Hotel–a hotel where I was literally conceived and where my grandparents worked and where my love of old hotels and hotel culture was cultivated, for a couple of years writing–then finish the experience by writing a book about being an author living in the hotel.