Part 7b in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: South Dakota (part one) Today, we finish up South Dakota, with the Badlands through Mitchell… The Badlands are a bit like a lunar landscape: Or perhaps like Mars:…
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The Sojourn in Pictures: South Dakota (part one)
Part 7a in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Day before yesterday: Nebraska I have decided to divide South Dakota into two parts since there’s so much to cover. Today will cover Wind Cave through Wall, while tomorrow…
The Sojourn in Pictures: Nebraska
Part 6 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: Wyoming The Good Life! Having never been to Nebraska, I was in a rush to pick up my 47th state: Obligatory self-portrait with the good life: I had…
The Sojourn in Pictures: Wyoming
Part 5 in a 16-part stately series pictorially documenting the Sojourn. Yesterday: Colorado Forever West: Wyoming purports to be the first government in the world to grant women equal rights, as this statue Esther Hobart Morris, an early Wyoming suffragette…
The Sojourn in Pictures: Colorado
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…
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…
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…