A 190-mile Vermilion Cliffs Loop
This would be quite a road trip, but our sources said that visiting the Vermilion Cliffs would be worth it. Before we begin a description of our journey, though, I beg your indulgence to poke around the word “vermilion”. The linguistic detour started with a “Hey Marcy, is ‘Vermilion’, one ‘L’ or two?” It turns […]
Alone Together at a Famous Landscape
Just musing here, but this blog post is meant to be a gentle affirmation favoring proper touristing. So far on this trip, it’s been nice people all the way down. Maybe it is that the high season of bad behavior has not fully arrived, and also, Marcy and I tend to avoid the most crowded […]
A missing piece from the Monument Valley story
Hello friends, A quick note about the Monument Valley story I just published — some subscribers may have received the post without the opening image. That image is really the heart of the story: the long road on US Highway 163, stretching toward the buttes of Monument Valley, the very view many people associate with […]
The Most Crowded Empty Road in the West
“I’m pretty tired. I think I’ll go home now.” – Forrest Gump, upon arriving in Monument Valley. In my mind, this is the most iconic scene of the American West. From a high viewpoint, the pavement stretches toward a vanishing point, with distant red buttes rising from the desert floor. It captured my imagination when […]
JRO
“Hear the drums echoing tonight But she hears only whispers of some quiet conversation She’s comin’ in, 12:30 flight Her moonlit wings reflect the stars that guide me towards salvation I stopped an old man along the way Hopin’ to find some old forgotten words or ancient melodies He turned to me as if to […]
The Train to Zermatt
Perhaps our Teutonic surname granted some pull with our host, but the Alpenblick Hotel gave us one of their few rooms with a nice Matterhorn view. Marcy and I continued our train trip through Switzerland today as we rolled our suitcases the few meters (Marcy said more than a few) from our hotel to […]
