Category: Travel

I have realized that, for the most part, travel is less plot than it is description. Fragmentary sketches of sentences with no verbs. I travel with a lot of novels, for reading in hotel beds before sleep, to add substance to what is otherwise mostly setting. So I’m trying to remember what I remember about [...]

I haven’t seen lightning storms in April before and this is the hardest I’ve ever seen it rain for an extended time, bar one experience (a tropical storm from Atlanta to Savannah). I came towards Des Moines in the indigo latest of twilights, in flashes of spray and quick panics of lost lane markers and [...]

I’ve been driving for 14 hours so forgive my jumble. I have everything to say but no ability to put it into grammatical, syntactical framework. Some notes. I’m staying in an area of Kansas City called Westport (wikipedia says more). It’s interesting, surreal, houses of the era of my own (late nineteenth century?) flopped up [...]

I’m leaving in a couple of hours on a 2-week-plus road trip to Boston. The TT should be in working order, at least for the first few hundred miles. I’m scheduled to stop in Boise, Ida. tonight. I’ll try to throw some posts and photos thisaway as I travel. Most of my hotels are supposed [...]

It’s been a long but useless week. I got sick, succumbing to Mr. Pencil’s cold he had last weekend in Sunriver. This weekend we’re in Hood River, Ore., different river, different environment. I had to come later than the rest because I was making up some work that I missed. In Sunriver last week it [...]

Dance 6 Originally uploaded by lyzadanger. During our stay and requisite partying during the yearly trip to Sunriver, Ore., I took a series of long-exposure shots with my digital camera of various party goings-on. They seemed really cool at the time but are losing their lustre in my esteem quickly. I should have some film [...]