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Close to Home
Apologies, the website was temporarily down due to a combination of financial and technical difficulties, but is back up! Heading further and further south towards the third coast, weather became less and less amenable to sitting down and writing during the day, and I either would be tired or out of cell service or some…
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Back in the South
Nearing Winston-Salem, North Carolina, I heard the comforting southern drawl on the radio that reminds me of home, a break from the accents of the northeast which, all apologies, sometimes sound like children with speech impediments. I’m sure they say the same about us. But to hear someone say “wudder” (water) was an unexpected relief.…
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Beach Bummery, Work
Another delay in the blog, but might not be the worst thing. I don’t think I could keep up with a daily blog post so maybe once or twice a week will be something I can manage sustainably. Seeking to not fight against the cycles of my natural inclinations, I’ve been through enough of that…
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Turning around
Turns out the suspension clunk was the loose top nuts on my struts. Having installed them myself, I erroneously ruled this out as the source, but somewhere in the interaction between the quality of the car parts and the terrain of my journeys, things got loose and boogered out. The old tubes of JB Weld…
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Philly, NYC, upwards
I made it to Philadelphia. Did a little work in the bakery, switched a light fixture out for his friend, worked on my car, made a fool of myself in a couple ways, but what’s new. It seems the heat, despite my attempted evasions, caught up to me with a triple digit heat wave (apologies).…
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From flat country to bat country
Apologies for the delay, I have been moving through quite a few states with no update on the blog. Although the cop that woke me up at the Iowa rest area was nice enough, as has been just about everybody, and the landscape very pleasing, I found myself wanting to get out of there fast.…
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UP Michigan and Wisconsin
I have, as projected, made it through the delightful Upper Peninsula. The old spirits of the forest did not permit me to stop for any length of time and the form they assumed was an unending swarm of apparently cellular signal jamming mosquitos. Bet they pollinate the hundreds of miles of great white trillium understory…
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I love rest areas
Say what you want about American car centric culture, but the rest area is a sacred institution holding this all together and I have currently established a routine of using them for their intended purpose. You aren’t supposed to camp, but putting a blanket down does not qualify. That’s picnic behavior. Book reading behavior. Civilized.…
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They named a town after me
I’ll stay here a few days in Holland, Michigan. There were literally signs, so I followed them, and stayed a couple days in Holland State Park. The price for tent camping here has led me to employ less official options, but that’s the way of the road, bub. Hammock weather will be back soon but…
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So that’s what stinging nettle looks like
For those unfamiliar with its blessings, the sensation is very wasp-like and lasts only a few minutes. Not much poison ivy to speak of up here in Illinois, at least not in the homey north Texas ubiquity, so the contact dermatitis was brief, and my journey uninterrupted. This may not be urticaria dioica, en sensu…