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Pat Moon has a perfect beard for growing icicles. It starts at his ears and works its way down round the bottom of his chin, not spending any time on the front of his face. It’ll probably spend a good amount of time hiding inside layers of high-tech fabrics during Moon’s rookie run of the [...]
Three-fer Friday: An Artist I Met Along the Way…
Posted in Alabama, Buy, Meet, Oklahoma, See, Tennessee, Three-fer Friday on Jan 29th, 2010
Looking at art is always nice. Well, usually. Spending time with an artist who created work you like or love? Well, that’s a treat beyond belief. Time slows down and speeds up and your synapses start firing off like crazy. Things just shift a little to the left. Here, some artists we’ve been lucky enough [...]
Anybody know what the usual career trajectory is for a lasso expert? It’s not something I ever figured I’d think about but a travel-related coincidence brought the question on.
Last February, I spent some time at the Tanque Verde Ranch in Tucson, Arizona. One highlight of the trip–and there were many–was lasso expert Loop Rawlins’ one-man [...]
Someplace Old, Someplace New
Posted in Discuss, Do, Kentucky, Maine, Meet, Nebraska, See, Three-fer Friday on Jan 8th, 2010
Our calendars are (nearly) bare, waiting to be filled with this year’s adventures. But now we wrestle with the eternal conundrum of travel planning: Return to a place we have loved or explore a place we’ve always wanted to see? Both types of trip have merit. (Don’t you get a strange little thrill when you [...]
Hope on the Boardwalk
Posted in Listen, Meet, New Jersey, Watch on Dec 23rd, 2009
I met Ojenga last January on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. On winter days, the seagulls outnumber the people wandering the boardwalk by about 1000 to one. But Ojenga’s out there drumming, day in day out, unless it’s really really freezing. When I met him, he’d just logged his 17th year on the boardwalk. Business had [...]
A Donut Story
Posted in Discuss, Eat and Drink, Maine, Meet on Dec 16th, 2009
Remember that old travel magazine I found?
In it was a two-page spread titled “America’s Little Known Statues” by Frank L. Remington. Among the statues highlighted is this donutty monument, with the caption:
“In Camden, Maine stands a monument to Henry Brewster who invented the hole in the doughnut after he heard his mother remark that the [...]
A Fresh Take on U.S. Travel
Posted in Illinois, Meet, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin on Nov 24th, 2009
Some days, it feels like we’re all overthinking travel. So, with my nieces in town for Thanksgiving, I decided to get nine-year-old S.’s fresher-than-most (in several different yet usually charming ways) and back-to-basics take on travel in the U.S. Her sister, six-year-old J., was kind enough to contribute the artwork. She was paid in pretzels.
So, [...]
We Got Chills: Haunting America
Posted in Go, Meet, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, See, Tennessee, Texas, Three-fer Friday on Oct 30th, 2009
Boo!
Scare you? No? Well, we’ve got a few other tricks and travel treats bubbling away in this week’s Three-fer Friday cauldron. Here, some places and experiences that left us with chills (still multiplying). Happy Halloween!
We’re joined by one of our most frightening–and we mean that in a good way–friends. Hilary Davidson, a very nice and [...]
I visited the couple two years ago while touring Berea, a town that could easily take the title of Folk Art Capital of the U.S., and the surrounding area. While the whirligigs and sculptures outside the Money house signal something good going on inside, there’s no way to imagine the joy that sits just inside [...]
