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sweet home chicago, remoteness, the vice-president, and the informed flaneur

What a long strange trip it has been. The original plan was for a quick in-and-out for two people over three days to catch a ball game and use up some airline credits that were in need of being used up by a certain date. Simple right. Not so much. The trip had evolved. In […]

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the will to camp and lava hot springs, idaho

It was around ten years ago. Madera Canyon. Arizona. Just south of Tucson. We tent-camped in the small high-elevation campground near the end of the road. Early in the morning, shortly after sunrise, we drove down the canyon for coffee at a fast-food drive-through and then right back up again. A wonderful spot to photograph […]

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nashville, country music, a son of the south, the end of the python tunnel, and more on ai

Ah. Sigh. What a fun long weekend. We spent Memorial Day in Nashville, Tennessee. Not my idea. I was just tagging along. But a grand idea regardless. We were lucky with the weather and the layout of the town suits our desire to walk everywhere very well. We had a rental car which we didn’t […]

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a second spring and travel in america in 2023

Back north again and experiencing the reset that is a second Spring. One year we managed Spring in Grove City, Florida, followed by Southern Nevada, followed by Kihei, Hawaii, followed by Park City, Utah. That year of the four Springs is now established as something to work towards going forward. It was sort of accidental […]

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a real winter, pop-music, artificial intelligence and euro plans

Back in Park City, Utah. Snow. More snow. Still more snow. Supposed to snow tonight and tomorrow and snow every day and night for the next two weeks. This was the sort of winter we had back in the early and mid-nineties. Back when some years it snowed on the fourth of July. I had […]