Part 4 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: New Mexico Colorful (and dizzying) Colorado: An intense game of Pac-Man in the massive arcade in Manitou Springs: Also in Manitou Springs, Coke and Pepsi together again: I…
Category: A Day in the Life
The Sojourn in Pictures: New Mexico
Part 3 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: Arizona From a car in the dark with a migraine: In line at the beloved Frontier Restaurant: My parents’ backyard has become home to a small squirrel colony:…
The Sojourn in Pictures: Arizona
Today marks the beginning of what will be a roughly two-week series chronicling our recently ended odyssey in pictures. I’ve decided to break it up by state, since that divides the pictures into pretty neat little chunks (who wants to…
Minnesota Skinny Revisited (or: People Make Me Nervous)
In Philadelphia last week, Mesco and I had a brief discussion of how introverted I really am. Somehow Myers-Briggs personality types came up and she took issue with my deep-seated introversion as part of my general INFJ personality type. (I…
Summer Sojourn: Trip in Review
At some point, I will probably feel inspired to write more specific details of the second half of our trip just ended, replete with photographs and witticisms and anecdotes and the like. That day will probably not come in an…
New: Jersey
We have arrived in Princeton. Our place is just as small as we thought. The floor is not hardwood as advertised, but something like a parquet linoleum. It may be challenging to even get everything in, broken or not, let…
Spirits in the Material World
Then one day the sky fell in and freedom lost control and ran off the road and hit a pole And it was all and it was nothing at all -Josh Joplin Group, “Dutch Wonderland” Woke up this morning in…
Wednesday’s Child
I have posted just three prior days this month. Two of them were Wednesdays. As an actual Wednesday’s child, perhaps it’s destiny. Guess what day it is today? I’ve been wanting to write more than I have – I’ve even…
Catch Twenty-Two Pictures
Yesterday, I wrote 2,944 words about our trip so far. Today, as the old adage goes, I will add 22,000 or so. But you know what I think of that adage. I guess this is for those who disagree with…
The Sojourn So Far
About a week into the trip and still in the state of California. The smart money says we better get out of here before the state officially secedes by printing its own currency. If you think IOU’s can’t be considered…