The Ultimate Destination

Life is a one-way road, and there's a stop sign at the end. Enjoy the ride.

It’s the season of toddlers dressed like skeletons, falling leaves, and day-of-the-dead skulls japing out at us from parts unknown.

I’m using the title of Anthony Bourdain’s last show advisedly; he died, by his own hand, in 2018—transformed into another kind of antic death mask that makes us question the meaning of life itself.

But there he was, his com…