Pacific Coastline Dreaminess
“To the shore Follow! Oh, follow! To be at rest forevermore!” (James Russell Lowell) In our three weeks traveling south along route 1 in coastal California on the midpoint “leg”of our 2019 road trip, I’ve […]
Strong Touch Of Earth Day Spirit
“In nature, nothing exists alone.”(Rachel Carson, 1962) It’s Earth Day again for Ruth and I on our third, extended road trip stay in close proximity to the Central California coastline. Unsurprisingly, our attendance at a […]
Boosts of California Coastal Energy
“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better”(Albert Einstein) As Ruth and I reached the midpoint of our current road trip adventure, we rejoiced in our return again to the captivating Pacific […]
“Here & Now” Welcome By The Bay
DThe Bay Area is so beautiful, I hesitate to preach about heaven while I’m here.” (Billy Graham) “Every block is a short story, every hill a novel. Every house a poem, every dweller within immortal. […]
The Art Of Road Tripping
“I’d been to California once or twice, been all over the East Coast, but I didn’t really know the country in between. So, my goal was to really see America. And that was the frame […]
Endless Detention In Hell
OLD IDAHO PENITENTIARY OVERVIEW “Between 1872 and 1973, this infamous prison would house over 13,000 “most wanted” inmates behind these Boise sandstone walls. Constructed in large part by inmate labor, it stood as a chilling […]
Magnificent Mesa Moments
“Capitol Reef is filled with geology that takes shape, color, and dimension to a level beyond comprehension.” (Stefanie Payne, A Year in the National Parks: The Greatest American Road Trip) Upon leaving snowy Steamboat Springs […]
Savoring Steamboat Silence
“ The quieter you become, the more you can hear.” (Ram Dass) The experience of inner silence can be a difficult concept to grasp when you live a continually busy life in South Florida as […]
Great Plains Obstacle Therapy
“Then I discovered the prairie, and a slow healing began.”(Stephen R. Jones, The Last Prairie , 2000) As we crossed the Great Plains of Nebraska and N.E. Colorado on days 13-15 of our road trip, […]
“ Great War” On Full Display
“We cherish too, the poppy red That grows on fields where valor led It seems to to the skies That blood of heroes never dies” (Moina Michael – 1915 Poem – Response To “In Flanders […]
