“And while I stood there, I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a shared manner the shapes of things in the spirit and […]

“A National Park is not a playground. It’s a sanctuary for nature and for humans to accept nature on nature’s own terms. (Michael Frome) It’s amazing how Grand Canyon and Zion National Park seem so […]

“The landscape everywhere away from the river is of rock-cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock; then thousand strangely carved forms.“ (John Wesley Powell) We’re heading north through the high […]

“I shall smile when wreaths of snow blossom where the roses should grow.” (Emily Bronte) I awoke this morning to find myself enclosed in a wonderful snow globe of silent whiteness. So as I continued […]

“The earth has music for those who listen.” (William Shakespeare) Sedona Arizona has endured as of our favorite travel stops in the Western U.S. over the past several decades. It’s really quite simple for us […]

“To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything. “(Willie Stargell) For a man who usually obsesses only about winning and losing baseball scores and statistics daily, […]

“And they three passed over the white sands, between the rocks, silent as the shadow.” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge) Driving south through the arid plateau region of New Mexico on unbusy Highway 54 and 70 to […]

“Walking in Memphis, I was walking with my feet ten feet off of Beale. Walking in Memphis, but do I really feel the way I feel.”(Marc Cohn) Moving west from Atlanta on I-20 and I-22, […]

“There’s always something in Atlanta that’s so far from people’s comfort zone.” (Metro Boomin) If you are looking for a place that combines the “cool” spirit of modern day, multistory life in a big city […]

“Don’t count the days. Make the days count.”(Mohammed Ali) There seemed to be a definite vibe in the air of endless freedom again on the first day of our road trip. So I was not […]