It rained hard in Flagstaff, Arizona the night before we drove north. About an hour drive from there. You find a place to park. You try to figure out which direction to go. You finally get it figured out, you walk around the bend and then…… …..your breath is taken away. Stunning. Absolutely stunning. And of course I cried like a baby. Mind-boggling beauty does … Continue reading Oh, it is Grand, indeed

Whew! What a day!  So, from Carlsbad Caverns we drove to Albuquerque where we spent the night in a random parking lot.  We didn’t see much of Albuquerque.  It seemed like a very sprawled out city.  Anyway, then we drove to a KOA campground in Holbrook, Arizona.   Nice scenery along the way.       The Grand Canyon State has a whole lot more … Continue reading Petrified Forest and Meteor Crater

….aka Enchanted Fairyland.  No kidding, this place is mind blowing. But first, to catch you up, we left Austin late in the afternoon and headed west/northwest and spent the night in an exceptionally noisy truckstop in Absolutely Nowhere, Texas and saw this lovely sunset along the way. The next morning, we discovered that Texas doesn’t have green tree tubes, it has rock tubes.   Pretty … Continue reading Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico

    If you’ve ever traveled through the South….     ….these images ought to look mighty familiar to you.       Éva and I started calling them tree tubes.       Green tree tubes. Mile after mile after mile after mile of green trees on either side of the highway – any highway. Whenever I think of my travels through the South, … Continue reading Austin, mostly

Where to start? Or when? New Orleans.  A long desired destination of mine…. …and in a way, completely overwhelming. In some ways, it reminded me of Ha Noi.  What I’d been expecting was an old, quaint town and what I got was an enormous, hectic city.  Still very beautiful, but oddly disorienting. However, I had a few ideas what I wanted to do, what I … Continue reading N’awlins, Loozeeanuh

Traipse. I love that word Traipse: verb \ˈtrāps\ – to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one’s goal. If I do have a goal, I’m not sure what it is. But I’m a pro at wandering aimlessly. Anyway, since Savannah, it’s been a bit of a blur, but I’ll try to piece it together and make some sense of it, … Continue reading Traipsing Along

I’ve fallen in love…. …with Savannah, Georgia…. …..but I’ll get to that in a minute. First, the beach! The ocean looked strangely like the Pacific, I must say.  Hhhmmm….. But, as I said in my last post, amazingly warmer.  We had so much fun swimming and riding the waves.         The beach itself looked like so many pictures I’ve seen of the … Continue reading Savannah, GA

Éva and I have started our journey. Here I sit at a coffee shop in Savannah having the most incredibly difficult time believing we only left yesterday morning. It hasn’t even been 48 hours. I don’t know. Weird.   Anyway, as I said, we left Asheville yesterday morning and after encountering this rather bizarre sight on the road and about four and a half hours … Continue reading Atlanta – the old, the new, the weird, the cool

I’ve had a slow, introductory glimpse at Asheville.  I’ve seen some great sights, been introduced to wonderful people, seen parts of the town I imagine a lot of people don’t ordinarily see….and I still feel it’s been only a rudimentary introduction.  I think I’ve barely scratched the surface of this place. But, here are my first impressions:               Click … Continue reading Asheville, North Carolina

Well, I did the tourist thing here in Asheville – I visited Biltmore Estate.  The kids had an extra ticket which they gave me.  Thanks, kids! I went on a Monday but it was still quite busy and crowded.  It is summer and tourist season though, so I suppose it’s to be expected.  It’s such a wide shot from the front, I had to walk … Continue reading Biltmore Estate