Exploring the American Landscape
After wading through thousands of words in my prior two posts about Munich and Innsbruck, a reader could be forgiven for believing that the main purpose of this European adventure is to visit German-speaking cities. But all that was just a lead-up to one of the two primary destinations of this trip: the eastern portion … Read more
After an exceptionally busy spring, we were ready to slow the pace for the summer. At least that was the goal, and we started by experimenting with the calendar. No, we did not invent a time machine. Instead, we tried to find out whether… Third Time’s the Charm in the Outer Banks Since moving to … 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
Moving to Winston-Salem has given us two new calendars to govern our lives. The first is the seasonal cycle, featuring four honest-to-goodness seasons, each with distinctive delights and challenges. The other is the academic calendar. Several of my volunteer activities are university-affiliated, and my library gig is work-from-home this summer while renovations are happening on … Read more
Despite having been planned as an eastern version of the great western national parks, and sitting within a day’s drive of millions of East Coast dwellers, somehow Shenandoah National Park was one that we had not managed to add to our list of national parks visited. Until now, making it #33. After completing our northbound … Read more