Day 4.2 Bodie Historic Place By the time the rented grey Ford Focus turned onto CA 170/Bodie Road in Mono County, California, the family’s plastic salad cartons, hotdog trays and fruit and drink cups were empty, and it was good thing. Bodie Road was as pot-holed, rugged, dirty and unpleasant as the history of Bodie,Continue reading “Sad Beauty of Abandonment: Bodie and Mono Lake”
Category Archives: Travel from the Third Person Point of View
AJ and April
\”That last blog wasn\’t very good,\” she said. \”I know, it could have been more … better,\” AJ replied. \”I was a character in it and even I was bored.\” \”This is hard. I hate having bad writing spells.\” \”I know, but you\’re the one who wanted to do it like this. Just keep trying to pictureContinue reading “AJ and April”
Distractions Along the Road
Day 4.1 That morning, B was ecstatic. His late-night drive up to Tunnel View, a turnout affording panoramic vistas of the Yosmite Valley, had given him and Tripod a soul-shaking opportunity to catch the heavens in their glory. “I’ve already been to church and had my spiritual experience … last night I got some greatContinue reading “Distractions Along the Road”
Among Giants, The Muir Woods Hat Contract, and E is for Enervating
Day 3 After gleaning a quick breakfast from the hotel’s free offerings, the family packed into the car and retraced the steep, winding road to Muir Woods National Monument1, this time to stay for a while. Muir Woods consists of never-logged forest, with the star attractions being Coastal Redwoods, Sequoia sempervirens, which thrive in ancientContinue reading “Among Giants, The Muir Woods Hat Contract, and E is for Enervating”
The First Raven, Battered Batteries, and Gradients
{The Longest} Day 2.2 The robotic voice of Google Maps directed them away from San Francisco Airport toward the city by way of a wide, undistinguished highway. After a dozen quick miles, it led them to an inefficient scenic route that took them through neighborhoods of narrow, high houses standing like books on aContinue reading “The First Raven, Battered Batteries, and Gradients”
More Than Flying
{The Longest} Day 2.1 AJ sat in a hard plastic shell of a chair at gate 8 in the United terminal at O’Hare Airport, reluctant to peer into the world around her. It was 6:30 a. m. in her mind and the atmosphere was still a brick wall of sensory overload. B and the boysContinue reading “More Than Flying”
Driving to Fly
Day 1 As AJ washed the dinner dishes from a meal of leftovers and refrigerator scraps, her mind wasn’t too far away, just through the door to where her packed suitcase stood. She mentally riffled through the items she had just gathered, bundled and stuffed into the luggage. “Hat? Sunblock? Do I have enough socks?Continue reading “Driving to Fly”
Painting a Deck with Robert Louis Stevenson and a Donkey
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. Stevenson, RobertContinue reading “Painting a Deck with Robert Louis Stevenson and a Donkey”
A View From the Outside In
It started with a rejection. The literary magazine couldn’t use her story at the moment. It was not a new sentiment to her. A disappointment, yes, but in reality it was expected; it was only in her dreams that it didn’t seem possible. It was age-old process of growing a writing callous over her ego,Continue reading “A View From the Outside In”
COMING SOON!
Hey there! If you\’re looking for Harvey, he\’s not here. I\’m getting him into shape and will be putting him to work. But I have another idea in mind … coming soon.
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