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 […]
IF AT FIRST YOU DON’T SUCCEED …
Photo: Marcy Wielfaert It is a case of trying for the perfect picture, one we could enlarge and print for the living room, so yesterday evening we drove for the third time to the New London Lighthouse. We were encouraged when our family gave positive comments on the picture you see here, but somehow, we […]
A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE
I ventured down to the shore in a place I hadn’t been before in order to get a picture of Rustico Harbour from a different perspective. (Harbour is spelled with a “u” here.) It was weird walking through this thick, high, marsh grass over a layer of spongy seaweed. Doug wasn’t with me, and I […]
