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

From my scribblings: “As I sit here in Murphy with her windows open and feel the cooling breeze, listening to the rain falling hard on her roof, I am content. I’m in Kansas and it would appear a tornado is in the works.  But, probably not.  I assume it’s that because I’m a Californian and this is Kansas, there’ll automatically be a tornado.  I don’t … Continue reading Who says Kansas is flat?

The morning I left Idaho Falls, my brother, sister and I went out for breakfast where we talked and laughed and laughed and laughed until we cried. We must’ve been a sight.  As we were walking out, a song started playing in the restaurant and I had to stay and listen.  It was only one of the best songs ever created since the beginning of … Continue reading Pocatello, Pocatello, Pocatello

Somewhere along the line before we reached Ontario, we’d passed from Pacific into Mountain Time, so when we got going the next morning it was an hour later than we were thinking.  Our phones, our computers, all the technology we so mindlessly rely on seemed to be indicating a different time.  Very disorienting.  It’s odd – what difference does the time make… especially when you’re … Continue reading Idaho & Craters of the Moon