Category: Travel

  • Writing on the Go

    Writing on the Go

    I’m traveling this morning. Blogging is likely to be even more sporadic than usual for the next few days, but I intend to put stuff up here, even if it’s just photos of interesting stuff and snippets of what I’m writing. Warm-up words from the plane… I’m a writer. So? Write. It’s not that easy.…

  • 1911 Miles

    1911 Miles

    As I was rolling along on the final leg of my Spring Break Trip, I was musing about what I’d been able to do this week. I set out Monday evening, and got home Friday at noon, having traveled 1911 miles in between. We joke about wanting portals we can step through and instantaneously travel…

  • Elrod Falls

    Elrod Falls

    Early in our Tennessee trip, we had a day with nothing planned other than driving from the eastern side of the state to the middle of it. Someone mentioned waterfalls, and my ears perked up. I have wonderful memories as a child of visiting spectacular waterfalls in Oregon, probably Silver Falls, but the visual memories…

  • Day One: Cumberland Gap

    Day One: Cumberland Gap

    As we were traveling from Kentucky to Tennessee, I saw the sign for Cumberland Gap and asked if he minded that we stop. I had never been there before and wanted to see the much-storied and historic area. We got directions to the Scenic Overlook at the information center and headed up some 4 miles…

  • A Different Angle

    Flying out of the airport on a sunny Sunday morning, I had a rare chance (for me) to take some photographs from a different angle.

  • Safely Home

    I’m back! It was a long trip, coast to coast, with all the usual pains of travel, mixed with joys of seeing family, some of them after far too long apart. Pains of travel? I was scheduled to arrive last night at about 10:30 my time, which would have had us home and relaxing before…

  • Planning Ahead

    On Sunday, rather early in the morning, I leave on a big trip. Because I have multiple connecting flights, and a close to four-hour layover in a place where I’d love to leave the airport and do some sightseeing, but can’t due to the ever-damned security hassles, I don’t arrive at my destination until early…