When I have to travel… I’m uncomfortable, discombobulated, homesick. But since I do have to travel about four times a year, I want to teach myself how to do it with less discomfort.
Blog Posts about Travel
Living in the City of Holy Faith
Often when I’m asked, with less and less surprise, why I moved to Santa Fe in 1991, I repeat the familiar explanations…
Truck Driving Woman
She is, she told me, a professional long-haul truck driver, steering eighteen-wheelers with enormous trailers across big swatches of this county.
Umbrella
For my daily walk I borrowed a big black umbrella. But—how to open it?
Hands
Our faces show the inevitable effects of age but our hands seem to me to retain a little of our youthful hopefulness.
Somewhere Out There You…
As I’m listening to long-forgotten but amazingly familiar tunes, I’m remembering the high point of my visit to Dublin last week…
Equinox in the City That Lacks One
Of course equinoxes happen everywhere even in places that seem oblivious like midtown Manhattan where I’m roosting for a few days…
California Dreamin’
It’s no longer just the perfectly proportioned who wear thongs on the beach; the size of some of the buttocks on display is awe-inspiring.
Talking the Train Talk
Everywhere I travel on Amtrak, I meet people who are dedicated to avoiding planes.
There Are Just Too Many of Us
We’ve all experienced the overcrowding of big cities, from which some of us fled to small towns like Santa Fe, now overwhelmed too with commercial development and part-time residents.