Dar Chabanne Feeling horribly contained by urban life here, I drove out of the city not really knowing where I was going and pulled my truck to the side of the road by a small shrine about fifty miles into the desert. I pulled out my sleeping bag and found a spot where the rocks were a […]
Category Archives: Travels
Night in the Desert.
05-Feb-12The 3:10 To Yuma.
22-Jan-12flowingly I saw the Western The 3:10 To Yuma at the Fox Theater in downtown Tucson last night. The movie was good, though the “suspension of disbelief” requirements were a little high for me: the plot revolves around getting a notorious desperado onto a train to be hanged in Yuma. A fairly large number of people die […]
Blessing of New Parents.
22-Jan-12This is from the “never saw that before” department: while at mass at San Augustin cathedral in Tucson, I was going up to communion behind a couple with a newborn infant. They were very cute: they were supposed to go up to communion in single file, but walked up half side-by-side as if unable to […]
At Home in Tucson.
22-Jan-12White Sands.
11-Jan-12Near Alamogordo. Oh my God. Astonishing.
Route 66.
09-Jan-12Route 66.
09-Jan-12I’m driving long days and seeing friends in addition, so there’s not really time to write, but let me just say that I pulled off I-44 today to drive Route 66 from Miami, Oklahoma to Tulsa – and all I can say is wow. You would think that Route 66 would be a well-marked, touristy […]
The Dead Heart of It All.
07-Jan-12Columbus is a well-swept, prosperous city, with large corporate buildings and the usual appurtenances of a state capital. There are public parks, immaculately kept, and solid-looking public institutions. There are twenty- (maybe even thirty-?) storey office buildings. I slept the night before in my tent, and while the weather is very mild, January camping is […]
Dawn at the Columbus Public Library.
07-Jan-12Columbus – a substantial city, in feel about the size of Richmond, but with a great deal more architectural style. It’s also frighteningly clean and on a Saturday morning there is absolutely no one there. A city with everything but people. It has a fabulous old library. “BIBLIOTHECA FONS ERUDITIONIS” – a library is a […]
Kings/Wise Men/Amigos/Stooges.
07-Jan-12Picture from a Pennsylvania rest stop. No information given as to who these three men are, though of course we may presume. Just three pictures in a glass case outside a bathroom.