Our first week-long stop was Austin, Texas. We arrived after an overnight in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, on a Sunday, and we are now departing on Friday. We managed to squeeze a lot into our short time here. We got to catch up with friends from Salem and friends from Virginia. We got to eat excellent… Read More Austin deserves more
We are already a third of the way through our visit to New York. Last week was wonderful. Gorgeous weather, daily walks through Central Park, explorations of new neighborhoods, regular visits to the gym. City-wide celebrations of Halloween, Diwali, and the NYC Marathon. This week we’ve felt some added pressures and stresses, both work related… Read More New York as a state of in between
We left the Badlands and made the long drive through farmlands to Chicago. We stayed in the Wicker Park neighborhood for a week, and became quite smitten with the city. The first time we were in Chicago was almost a decade ago, and then it was only for a long weekend. The city has only… Read More One Week in Chicago
This week was sprinkled with joyful local elements and surprising elements from the sky. We actually had snow on Monday, which was not expected in mid June. But other than that nonsense we’ve had some beautiful weather here. We were also lucky enough to be invited to a friend’s camp in McLeod mid week and… Read More A quiet week in Bozeman
Sometimes there are no words and the pictures are not enough. But they are all I have, so I’ll offer them here for our weekend at Glacier National Park where we hiked 9 miles on Saturday and 11 miles on Sunday. Over the weekend we saw glaciers, Iceberg Lake, moose, deer, hares, gophers, bison, and… Read More Sometimes there are no words
After Stockholm, Larry and I flew in to Las Vegas. We stayed two nights at the Mandalay Bay Resort. Friday evening we went up to have a drink at the Skyfall Lounge which gave a terrific rooftop view of the strip. We then grabbed Japanese at one of the many restaurants in the resort and… Read More Two more side quests on our way to Montana
This is the post where I catch up on the crazy leg of the tour. So when last we met, I was one week in on our two week time in Utah. The second week held some brilliant highlights, but on the day I would normally shoot to do a blog post, we were in… Read More Seems we’ve pulled it off
Has it really only been a week (basically)? It feels like we’ve been here for way longer. It feels like we’ve been to a different planet too. Southern Utah has a lot to offer, and more than we can possibly take in during the short time we have for this visit. We have managed to… Read More Only a week so far?
Today I went by myself to Bryce Canyon and had my mind blown, my soul rung like a bell, my thoughts empty but for the fragments of poetry that were playing out in front of my very eyes. TS Eliot, Peter Mulvey, Mary Oliver, Walt Whitman. So many of their words were with me today… Read More Then spoke the thunder
We left Tennessee and spent two full days driving. The first day landed us in Amarillo, Texas, in time for an excellent dinner of Tex Mex and a good night’s sleep. The second day brought us from Texas to Utah, passing through Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona. We passed stunning scenery, the likes of which… Read More Nomads heading west
