It’s one of the things that Americans abroad are most recognized by and very often criticized for: striking up conversation with total strangers! Yes, we do that. We do it abroad not realizing that what we do at home is, in fact, not done in many other societies in the world. Americans consider it a …
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Mount St Helens Diary–part two
It was 24 years after the major eruption of 1980, and the mountain had been restless. My son Charles who was 19 now and I decided to drive down from Olympia WA and sit vigil for a while just in case something dramatic was about to happen. I took notes. 6PM Oct 3, 2004 —We’ve …
Mount St Helens Diary–part one
We’re approaching the 45th anniversary of the May 18th, 1980 eruption of Mount St Helens in Washington State in the US. I was there that day. I lived in Olympia, about 60 miles from the volcano. For months we’d been hearing news of the rumbling earth, increasing intimations that St Helens was restless. At the …
Travelblogue: The American West: Pike’s Peak Region
I have lived in Colorado for some years now with a view of Pike’s Peak outside my window. Many of these photos are of the mountain itself from various places in Colorado Springs: Sunrises and sunsets, clouds and storms, moon sets… The Mountain is always there, and always different! I’ve driven up into and around …
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Travelblogue: American West Colorado: Garden of the Gods
Located in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Garden of the Gods is a spectactular geologic park, a portion of the red and white rock formations that run north and south along the Front Range of the Colorado Rockies. I live about 3 miles away, so have collected many views in different lights and seasons. https://flic.kr/s/aHsjpeCjcb https://flic.kr/s/aHsjNhR3Kw T …
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Travelblogue: Red Rock Country, the American West
I have always loved the western United States, for the scent of wild sage and especially for the dramatic geology. Interstate 70, begins in Utah at a point south of Salt Lake City and continues eastward to Baltimore, Maryland. I’ve driven the particular section between its junction with I 15 in Utah to Denver, Colorado …
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Elder Dreaming
So many pathwaysdrear and close,or bright and magicalthrough woods and hillsand neighborhoods,I now will never walk… Trails to wonders,mysteries,unmet friends and scenes,destinationsand discoveriesthat once may have been… Pictures still and movingare now my wayto wander,to rememberthe feel of forest airsacross my face. CL Redding November 2022
Travel Journal: Crossing Colorado
Storm Clouds Over ColoradoAugust 2007 We continued on I-70 through Glenwood Canyon, called the most beautiful segment of this highway with good reason! We stopped at one of the several rest areas that have been developed to make the most of the canyon’s attributes. It’s called No Name, and if you are going that way, …
Travel Journal: Trapping the Wild Tourist
They are out there, little roadside attractions like a two-headed critter, or a zoo of oddities, or something just big and silly, like the world’s largest ball of string… And then there are the big ones, always “ready to relieve you of a sou or two…” August 16, 2007 Colorado Road Trip Sunrise at Royal …
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New York and the Scary Subway
New York and the Scary Subway A lot of people are dubious about going underground in New York City. The noise, the shadows, the strange cinder- and uncleaned-bathroom-scented winds… the other people, whom you can see walking through–but maybe not… That romantic show back in the 80s, was it? probably gave a few dewy-eyed types …
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