Exploring the American Landscape
Architecture and human creations
The big story of last year (2024) was our change of venue from Florida to North Carolina, with all the tumult that moving and changing states entails. Things were a lot calmer in 2025, since we were mainly focused on getting established in our new community. We already knew several people before we moved here, … Read more
While it may be an exaggeration to characterize trips lasting fewer than 48 hours as “road trips,” we rounded out our 2025 travel with two short road trips to the mountains. While brief, our third and fourth mountain getaways of the year took us back to places we visited earlier in the summer, but with … Read more
Immediately after completing our two short trips to the mountains in May and June we got to work on planning visits to the beach. As noted in my prior post, we are following the wisdom of the local crowds, since mountain and beach trips are summer staples in this area. We checked out two different … Read more
This year my mother passed a years-lived milestone that ends in zero, and to celebrate her birthday we took a mother-daughter trip to a destination of her choice. She selected the Scottish Highlands as the focus of the trip, and the high latitudes (comparable to Labrador in North America) made it prudent to travel somewhat … Read more
Things are still terrible politically and economically, but that isn’t stopping the inevitable change of the seasons. We have really enjoyed seeing trees bursting into bloom as we stroll around the neighborhood, power-walk down the greenway, and drive around town. I am particularly lucky to be able to enjoy the lovely surroundings of … Read more