Bourbon Street is a pretty amazing place. An endless stream of humanity flows past, checking out the bars and strip clubs and oyster bars and other places to take a load off and sip an Abita and suck down an oyster with some lemon juice. Loud music, mostly from cover bands, floods out into the [...]
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A View From A Bourbon Street Balcony, April 18
Posted in America, Photography, Travel, tagged Alcohol, America, Bourbon Street, midwest, New Orleans, Photography, Travel on April 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Fabulous Jackson Square All-Stars
Posted in America, Music, Travel, tagged America, Jackson Square, Jackson Square All-Stars, Music, New Orleans, Travel, Treme on April 18, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I’m in New Orleans for a conference. Although I’ve been to other parts of Louisiana, it’s the first time I’ve visited the Crescent City. I got in this afternoon and took a stroll to get my bearings and get some exercise, besides. While walking past Jackson Square I heard the strains of some New Orleans [...]
On A Rocker-Filled Front Porch
Posted in Books, Photography, Travel, tagged Books, Charles Dickens, Dozing, Front Porches, Oliver Twist, Photography, Rockers, The Homestead, Travel on March 27, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One final point about the Homestead: it has a fabulous front porch full of high-backed white rocking chairs. If, like Kish and me, you are an avid reader, there’s nothing like a rocking chair on a bright afternoon. We drank tea and read our books as the sun moved slowly across the sky; I was [...]
In Confederate Territory
Posted in America, Photography, Travel, tagged America, Bath County Courthouse, Civil War, Confederate Soldier Statue, Photography, Travel, Virginia on March 24, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday Kish and I went exploring the area around the Homestead and ended up at the Bath County Courthouse in Warm Springs, Virginia. I guess I should have expected to see a monument to Confederate soldiers on courthouse square, just as you see monuments to Union soldiers on courthouse lawns in Ohio. Still, it was [...]
Blue-Collar Horses
Posted in Photography, Travel, tagged Horses, Photography, The Homestead, Travel on March 23, 2012 | 3 Comments »
This afternoon I took a walk and chose the south path near the Homestead’s entrance. The path took me down around a fenced-in meadow where two horses were grazing. As I approached, they sauntered over to check me out. If, like me, you aren’t around horses often, you forget how big they are. These two [...]
At The Homestead
Posted in America, Travel, tagged America, Sulphur Water, The Greenbrier, The Homestead, Travel, Virginia, West Virginia on March 22, 2012 | 3 Comments »
It’s spring break again at the Columbus Academy. Last year, we decided to visit the Greenbrier for the first time. This year, we’re checking out the Homestead. The Greenbrier is in West Virginia and the Homestead is in Virginia, and the Homestead is a bit farther away from Columbus than the Greenbrier, but people tend [...]
Reveling In That Carolina Blue
Posted in America, Photography, Travel, tagged America, Asheville, Fishing, North Carolina, Photography, Travel on March 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One of my friends, the Brown Bear, recently retired to a life of fishing and frolicking in Asheville, North Carolina. He goes to UNC-Asheville basketball games, walks his dog, audits classes at the college, brags shamelessly about the special beers brewed in the area, and occasionally — to really torment me — will send photos [...]
Our Beautiful Dome
Posted in America, Art, Photography, Travel, tagged America, Architecture, Art, Photography, Travel, U.S. Capitol on March 5, 2012 | 2 Comments »
I was in Washington, D.C. today, and got a chance to stop by the Capitol. Americans can and do disagree about what happens inside the Capitol, but we can all agree it is a beautiful building. The dome is a particularly inspiring architectural feature — enormous yet somehow delicate, perched atop the rest of the [...]
The Vermilion Town Hall
Posted in Ohio, Travel, tagged Ohio, Travel, Vermilion, Vermilion Ohio, Vermilion Town Hall on February 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The Vermilion Town Hall is found on one of the wooded town squares near the railroad tracks and the downtown area. It was built in 1883, at a time when Ohio was booming and towns like Vermilion were interested in displaying their prosperity and success in tangible form. Town halls were good ways to make [...]
A Perspective On Train Tracks
Posted in Ohio, Travel, tagged Ohio, Photography, Train crossings, Train tracks, Trains, Travel on February 24, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I’m drawn to train tracks. I love the feel and look of the tracks, with their brightly gleaming steel rails and their heavy wood railroad ties on the rough gravel beds. I love the railroad crossing gates, with their x-shaped railroad crossing sign, their clanging bells and flashing lights, and their striped crossing bars. But [...]
Sleeping To The Sounds Of The Lonesome Train Whistle
Posted in Ohio, Travel, tagged Country, Countryside, Ohio, Sleeping, Train whistles, Trains, Travel, Vermilion Ohio on February 23, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Kish grew up in Vermilion, Ohio, in a house located between two train tracks. Because there are two tracks nearby, and because a lot of commerce in America moves by freight train, the lonely sound of train whistles and the rumble of passing freight cars are a part of every visit we make. There is [...]
The Flush Factor
Posted in Humor, Travel, tagged Bathrooms, Hotel Rooms, Hotels, Humor, Toilets, Travel on January 30, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Travel always presents challenges and requires some accommodations. One little-mentioned point of travel-related adjustment involves the bathroom area. After all, you’re accustomed to your home commode. You’re used to the height, the seating, the back support, and the sound that is made when you flush. So, when you go the road and find one of [...]
The Perils Of “Wine Product”
Posted in Food, Travel, tagged Chateau Diana, Food, New York City, Travel, Wine, Wine Product on January 9, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
One last point about our New York City adventure: it taught me a valuable lesson about carefully reading the labels on unfamiliar food products. We were buying food in the little market near our apartment. I looked for a bottle of wine and there, in the beer aisle, were a few bottles. Not much of [...]
Rocky Mountains, Hi!
Posted in America, Travel, tagged America, Denver, John Denver, Photography, Rocky Mountains, Travel on January 4, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Okay, it’s a bad pun, and probably disrespectful to the memory of John Denver, to boot. But for me it is remarkable to look out the window of an office building and see the peaks of the eastern Rockies on the horizon. Being a flatlander — and Columbus is about as flat as it gets [...]
