Quirky thoughts from an old man.
We first saw Andrew Goldsworthy’s stone sculptures at Storm King Art Center so it was a marvelous moment of serendipity when we found two of his pieces on the woodland sculpture trail from the Frank Lloyd Wright home at Kentuck Knob back to the visitor center.
Here is a specific idea that combines the directed travel idea from my why we travel writing and the core idea from Arbitrary Stupid Goals. Visit all of the covered bridges in Oregon, walk across each one and take a pictures. Allow enough time for serendipity. Why ask why?
In March I wrote a series of entries about travel Here, Here and Here. I had started with the idea that an awful lot of travel was status display. I was wrong. I had underestimated how much travel is to escape and how much is for the experience.
On May 1, 2015 we went to Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands and serendipity happened. It was Nurit’s birthday, the tulips were in bloom the sun was shining and there weren’t many people. It was also the day that I realized I’d been traveling wrong. Both my expectations and my planning had been wrong. Most …
You can’t plan for serendipity. After Megladon tooth diving on the Georgia coast last week we went to lunch with a lovely young couple from New Jersey who have a business producing and selling photographs of Venice. Luciano Fine Art http://zsuzsannaluciano.com/index.html An unrelated, but beautiful, photo I took in Italy. The photographs are beautiful. The …
In the UCLA Clark Library the Head Librarian, Nina Schneider had opened some of the books that had maps and displayed them for the Map Society to take a look at. One of the books was open to a picture that looked like a henge. Mystery Henge But not Stonehenge. The book from the 17th …
After my trip to Van Wert, OH I was hurrying back to Chicago for dinner with an associate from the Immigration Reform movement when I got a text cancelling the dinner. I suddenly had some time so I went to the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore National Park. It was excellent. They even have a Mt …
When we were in Alaska we were hiking one day and saw an old piece of pipe. On closer examination it turned out to be Wire Wound Wooden Pipe. It was unusual enough that I took a picture of it, with Gene’s foot in the picture for perspective. When we got home I did some …