Rome: Intro to the Tourist Game
Looking back at a trip, there are the highlights punctuated by reflections on the “big” events as...
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Travels with Lil’ Red: Day 3: Restitution, Resolution, and Returned
Day 3: And on a Thursday, They Rested This is a simple post about the day we thought we might do...
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Travels with Lil’ Red: Day 2: The Path of Sisyphus
Tranquility Point—Red Butt Falls—East Parking Lot (5.6 miles) Fog rolls across the valley. A...
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Travels with Lil’ Red: Day 1: Nurture the Flame
The first in three-part series of an outdoorsy road trip around the Appalachians. Panthertown...
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Act IV: Finding the Spirit Within
Nic wakes me around 7:30. We have about four hours before we have to leave, and she wants to go...
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Intermission, then Act III: Respect the Hustle
Musical Interlude: Teach You How to Sing Here at intermission, a brief note about the music of...
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Act II: Spider-Man’s Post 9/11 Tour
Act II: Spider-Man’s Post 9/11 Tour If you’re doing the tourist thing in New York, there’s...
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New York: A Trip in Four Acts: Prologue and Act I: Mishaps in Manhattan
Prologue: Nic and I haven’t done any hard-core urban tourism since our 2016 jaunt across the pond...
Read MoreDown the Highways of the Old Confederacy
I am not from The South. I have lived here all of my adult life, but I have always had difficulty considering myself a Southerner. I was reminded of it early and often when I moved to North Carolina, no matter how...
Read MoreEpilogue: On our Brexit and Wanderlust
We began our own personal Brexit early on a Monday morning. Big hugs, thanks for coming, and...
Read MoreDay 16 and 17: Sometimes, You Get what you Need
Weekends are for relaxing. Leisure. Late day pajamas, Hanging on a Saturday Evening...
Read MoreDay 14 and 15: Trains, Turnarounds, and Tunnels: new twists on old paths.
The Greek philosopher Heraclitus once quipped, “You never step in the same river...
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