http://gradsgate.com/wp-admin/maint/index.php I crossed the Delaware out of New York state on the feast of the Epiphany. I will be on the road for awhile.
Category Archives: Travels
Crossing the Delaware.
07-Jan-12Nauvoo and Carthage, Illinois.
30-Mar-11I’ve been fascinated by the Mormons for a fair amount of time, for reasons both personal and temperamental: personal, because of the Mormons I’ve known, and temperamental because of my interest in all God’s supposed communications with men. On my cross-country bike trip in 1999 I biked across the Burnt-Over District of New York, so-called […]
Hannibal Without Mark Twain.
26-Mar-11From Cuivre River State Park I drove on up to Hannibal, Missouri. Mark Twain was born just outside town, and he spent his boyhood just up the block from the main intersection, where the road from the river landing crosses Main Street. The town is well-preserved, and Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn turn out to […]
Cairo, Illinois.
25-Mar-11Old Maytag repair shop, Commercial Avenue, Cairo.
At Cairo.
25-Mar-11I remember as a kid reading about Cairo, Illinois, the town that sits at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi, and even then I wanted to go there, fascinated by the idea of such a meeting of waters. The town is mentioned in Huck Finn – it should have been the place where Huck […]
Random New Orleans Car…
24-Mar-11… with a shellacked alligator as a hood ornament. A small metal hook, which had been welded onto the hood, kept it in place. There’s nothing difficult about installing such an ornament on one’s car: it’s just that you never ever see it done. When I told a friend about this, he said, “Everyone knows […]
The things you find out.
19-Mar-11Looking at the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers from Cairo, Illinois, the thing which impressed me was how giant the Ohio was; it is an extremely impressive river in its lower reaches. And looking it up, I discovered that it is, in fact, the larger stream at the juncture. By traditional standards – meaning considering the […]
Chiffarobe.
19-Mar-11I can say that I actually heard the word “chiffarobe” used in Greenville, Mississippi, in natural conversation.
The Mississippi.
18-Mar-11I drove up the Mississippi from New Orleans to Dallas City (Illinois) in two days, making stops in Vicksburg, Greenville, Clarksdale, Cairo, Hannibal, Carthage, and Nauvoo. This brief taste has whetted my appetite to bike the whole river. I had thought that such a trip might be boring: a river trip does not offer the […]
Youngstown, Ohio.
31-Mar-11buy cheap Pregabalin online On my way back to New York, I had reason to stop in Youngstown, another place I had long wanted to see. I knew it only from the Bruce Springsteen song (a live version here; it is different from the studio version, which is far more desolate; I would link to the album version but […]