The stars have begun to appear again in the brief hours of darkness, burning through the thick summer fog that silences the beach and feels in the surreality of extreme low tide to surely be hiding some terrible creature…
Posts Tagged ‘travel’
Wintry Summers of the North
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alaska, homer, travel on July 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Summer Solstice in Alaska
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alaska, homer, travel on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Midnight, noon, dusk and dawn, these words are abandoned far to the south, replace dby long hours of sunlight broken in brief reprieve by the twilight.
Delays and Turbulence
Posted in travel, tagged austin, travel, writing on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am still working out the details of what exactly I will be doing with this blog. I may be moving the whole thing to another web address soon. I am still in Austin, Texas, watching as the masses are played like a well-tuned violin by the bored news media over the mostly imaginary swine [...]
In the high southern desert, part 5
Posted in travel, tagged big bend, big bend national park, travel on April 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“Repent and be saved by the blood of Jesus!” Ted drawled and made wide sweeping gestures, his bare chest pale against the rock wall of the little pool.
In the high southern desert, part 3
Posted in travel, tagged big bend national park, chisos mountains, texas, travel on April 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I woke up a little before 10am. Sandwiched between cold air and cold ground, I pulled on a sweater and boots then crawled out into the bright morning light. And so I understood why Trevor bought such a remote piece of land. The valley floor swept out before us, carpeted in creosote, cactus, and patches [...]
In the high southern desert, part 2
Posted in travel, tagged big bend national park, terlingua, texas, travel on April 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The caravan left Marfa close to 1am Friday night. It was nearly 2am when all seven cars were pulled over and detained by highway patrolmen.
In the southern high desert, part one
Posted in travel, tagged alexa woodward, desert, marfa, music, texas, travel on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am dying for my camera right now. This little town perched among the high mountains of arid southern Texas is a mess of crumbling adobe, peeling paint, sun bleached and rusted signs, hiding a defiant outpost of eclectic artists siphoning off a few drops of the tourist money flowing towards Big Bend National Park.
Flowing with the river
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged travel on April 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Hippie Mansion is dissolving next month. I no longer have a place lined up to stay this summer. I was really looking forward to stability. Upon receiving this news, my first thought was of Alaska. In other news, the scabs fell of off my knees, and one of them looks infected, judging by the [...]
In the land of beckoning horizons
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged lubbock, travel on January 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It feels like stepping through a doorway into a slightly separate reality, making it past the nonsense and overwhelming symbol of the new fascist State that is the airport security checkpoint. Everything is in miniature, from the McDonalds to the bookstore, a fascimile of a large city mall. Great effort has been put into giving [...]
On the move
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged alaska, seward, travel on October 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Seward said goodbye to me with a snowstorm this morning. The cab driver let me ride around with him until the “bus station” opened. (The bus station in Seward is more like a large cabin, and the bus is one of those half-sized Citibus rigs, pulling a trailer for luggage.) I am stuck on a [...]
