I'm Elvis Mitchell. This is the treat. Writer Guy Trebe has made a sterling reputation charting the politics and aesthetics of style at places such as the New York Times and in his memoir do something. For his treat, he does something, getting his feet on the ground in every city he visits, no matter how peculiar.

This is Guy Trebe, and this is the treat.

The treat for me, the great joy for me in a very durable way is walking.

And I do it in every city and I do it in my own city.

And very customarily I will get on the M4 bus that goes up Madison Avenue in Manhattan

and take it until I feel like jumping off and then walk home with no plan, with no particular

aim in mind other than to participate in the life of the city and to take it in.

And this is something that I've done everywhere I go.

And right now I'm in Los Angeles,

and I've been walking in the city, which I know is very heretical. And I was walking down sunset, in fact, and someone called out my name from a car window. And I thought, what the hell is this? And it was Tom Ford, as it happens, just to name drop. And Tom said, what are you doing walking in LA?

And I said, that's what I do.

I walk in LA.

And I've discovered all kinds of stuff here.

The courtyard historic district is my latest mania. And it just is my way of being

in the world. I understand that in Los Angeles, everybody wants to be in a car and has to. But for me,

the most reliably pleasurable thing and the biggest treat in life is, A, to have the ability to

walk and then to

set out with no goal in mind on foot.

Center City, Manhattan, you know, the sort of 96th Street south to, I guess, 14th Street,

it's a little bit harder for me to be excited by walking because there's only so much joy I can get from a Dwayne Reed window.

You know, in Paris, there's tons of small-scale retail.

And when I'm in India, I walk, I go to India quite a bit and I walk a lot in Delhi in particular.

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