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paris, lyon, more paris

There we went again. Another trip to France. Again, a little damp. A little overcast. A little cool. Again, the rivers: the Seine, the Rhone, the Saone ran high. This time it was a flight through San Francisco to Charles de Gaulle. Paris for four days. A high speed train to Lyon for four. Another […]

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ed sheeran revisited, and other miscillany

Ah, sigh. It has been a long time since my last post. In the intervening weeks I’ve been back and forth between Park City and southern Nevada perhaps a half-a-dozen times. The streets in front of both places have been under construction related to civic projects for most of that time. We did catch the […]

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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 […]