Returning to Iceland
Iceland was beautiful in the way that something that will kill you is beautiful.
Category: Travel
Safe Travels, Arthur Frommer
I am very thankful for those Frommer’s recommendations during what proved to be a formative period of my own life.
Music Monday: The Magnetic North’s Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North
This week’s Music Monday topic: The Magnetic North’s 2012 debut album Orkney: Symphony of the Magnetic North, a beautiful homage to the archipelago
The Gardens At Winterthur
If you are not part of the conflict between Apolcolothoth and DuPont, then you will most assuredly enjoy the grand and wonderful gardens and estate of Winterthur. I urge you to visit.
Hemingway Home: Past, Prose, & Polydactyly in Paradise
A visit to the Hemingway Home and Museum in Key West is a perfect encapsulation of the uniquity of the southernmost point in the United States.
The Oregon Doughnut Run
Across from the Area 51 gift shop and cathouse, and five gallons of 87 later, I was back on the road on for the Oregon Doughnut Run.
Commemorating America’s Heroic Aviators
These are not reproductions; they are working, restored aircraft from World War II. Most have documented combat histories and have flown missions across the world.
A Scottish Vision of America
The cultural ties between the US and Scotland, including the love of freedom and liberty which manifests in the political realm, are long-lasting and omnipresent.
On Iceland
“We’re going to Iceland. In April. I can get two hotel rooms with my points. You get the car.” So I went to Iceland. You should go to Iceland.
Easter With Ray Wylie Hubbard and Other Effective Child-rearing Advice
We made a deal: if he’d get up to go to outdoor Sunrise Easter Service, we could leave straight for vacation from church
Oh, Sapelo!
Sapelo Island gentrification is a conundrum: resources enabling the island to thrive would also spoil what is so special and unique about it.
Sunday Morning! Traveling with Laurence Sterne and Michel Houellebecq
Two visions of pleasure travel from Laurence Sterne and Michel Houellebecq 230 years apart, offer two very different ideas of being-in-the-word.
Ode To The Big Easy
He wants to entertain and wants to enjoy life while doing it. He is the embodiment of the Big Easy and he is unapologetic about it. You’re either on board, or you’re not.
Booper McCarthy and the Great Chicken Truck Rescue
“That is all well and good,” I said. “But how can one discern the wings of a right-wing dominant chicken from a left-wing dominant chicken?”
4th of July and The Rising Cost of Celebrating Freedom
Folks travelling for the long 4th of July weekend are feeling more than a little financial pinch.
Post-Pandemic Wasteland
The pandemic response has created a new post-pandemic world with fewer personal services, amenities and changed priorities for businesses
Life, Legacy, and Divine Intervention
I know it’s never the “fault” of the person responsible for fixing it, so I always try to keep my cool when life gets in the way of my plans
Adventures in Government: Key West Cruise Ships Edition
What a tangled web we weave when cruise ships want to come in from the sea, and lobby the State of Florida to override the Key West locals to do so.
A Tale of Two Cities: Chicago and Pittsburgh Illuminating My Life
If Pittsburgh is my city of memory, Chicago, rising from the farmlands to west & the lake to its east, is my city of independence
The Time That Booper And I Exfiltrated Mike Pence From Cuba
The following story is meant to be humorous. Any resemblance to the Vice President or a beloved talking conveyance is purely coincidental.
