I cannot stress this enough. When you look down at the street and see the words “LOOK RIGHT” stenciled on the street, you had better look right. It’s one of those things we take for granted. I can’t begin to comprehend how many streets I have walked across in my life. From the time I…
Category: Writing
London, first impressions
You feel the train long before you see it. The preceding hot gush of air, that wall of sound that fills the tube station. A cloud of dust and paper wrappers and other debris billows up as the brakes of the train scream, the telltale clack-clack and rumble of iron wheels on electrified track. Then…
New site, you up?
After fighting WordPress for a week, the new site is up! Hopefully I can start publishing more travel blog related posts directly to facebook for anyone interested. There is going to be affiliate marketing too, so hopefully I can start using any commissions I get to fund more of my adventures. It’s now beer-thirty, so…
New Dog New Tricks
We set out on a Friday morning with clear blue skies and dry roads, heading North to Wyoming just a half hour out of town. On the drive, bald eagles perched on dormant cottonwoods on the side of the road. The weather got chillier as we headed into Wyoming, stopping off in Rawlins for fuel and breakfast. In the Walmart parking lot, we witnessed a raven eating a tomato that had fallen out of somebody’s bag.
New Beginnings
I am making renovations as I go and hope to share some of the progress I have made here. This house has been in my family for over 80 years. Six generations of my family have lived here. The building itself started out as a dance hall in 1913 and later evolved into a bowling alley, then a storefront for my family’s trucking business in the 1940s. It’s a weird old building, featuring a dock for freight, and some other quirky details.
Getting out more
The old cliche says the longest journey begins with the first step. Last year I took my first international solo trip and though I did plenty of research on what I needed to do once I got there, only experience could really prepare me for any of it. The path to get to that point…