A Slow Travel Blog About Reinvention and Life on the Road
A word about Oklahoma: booooooorrrrrrring. I’d sooner spend time in Passaic than in the vast expanse of nothingness that lies between Arkansas and Texas. Oklahoma is an endless yawnfest compared with the fascinating diversity and beauty of Arkan…
» Read moreTravelling the US is similar to driving throughout Europe, only state by state instead of country by country. Geography, customs, food and dialect or accent change, attitudes, too, many perceptible even to the casual passerby. What makes the trip …
» Read moreLast night, as we sat outside our cabin at the Shangri La Resort watching the sun set over the vast and pristine Lake Ouachita, I was struck by the feeling that we could be anywhere….Western Massachusetts, upstate New York, northern California, Pi…
» Read moreExecutive Inn and Suites, my foot. Having blasted out of New Orleans after a fun night, we struck out across western Louisiana, into a small stretch of Arkansas, and back into the flatlands of Mississippi as we changed course to a northwest trajec…
» Read moreThe road stretched before me, its gentle rise shouldered by forests of pines, and I sat up on my bike as I coasted along the Natchez Trace Parkway and stared ahead. The gentle purr of my freewheel was the only sound as I stopped pedaling and looke…
» Read moreThis morning, my mother asked me how the food had been on the road. I told her how lucky we’d been and that we hadn’t yet had a bad meal. Until today. It started when, a couple of hours after I chatted with her, we stopped at the Sonic Drive-in , …
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