I know, that doesn’t look much like a photo of a farm. We were fortunate to be able to stay a couple of nights at the farm that Elizabeth’s parents own outside of Benton Harbor. We went into St Joseph for lunch one day and afterwards I went for »
Archive of journal entries re "Traveling"
When Jill flew back from Palo Alto last month, she flew into Cleveland and I went down and picked up her up from the airport and then we spent a pleasant couple of (half-)days at the Art Museum there. The main exhibition, the main reason for the »
More accurately, my saviors are in Threshfield. Alan had to go to work, and I wanted to keep photographing in Yorkshire, so I looked for somewhere not too far beyond Skipton, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, stuck a pin in the (Google) map and decided on Grassington.
So good, we went there twice!
Saltaire is a model village (and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site) built by Sir Titus Salt on the River Aire to house his workers at his woolen textile mill, Salts Mill. When it was built in 1853 the mill »
Friends told us about a textile exhibition at the Ohio State University art museum in Columbus, OH and one of them was going to be back there last week, so we went down to take a look and hang out for a night; staying in a fabulous »
When we drove south yesterday we were listening to Dianne Rhem on Michigan Radio and her guest was Billy Collins, former poet laureate. I forget now how they got on to it, but he was talking about how he went through this period when everywhere he went, as he »
Late last week we got word from our favorite bed and breakfast in Saugatuck that there had been a cancelation and we were able to get away for a nice weekend by Lake Michigan.
Wow! Amtrak’s Zephyr train is such a great setup. It’s over 2 days from Chicago to Emeryville (across the Bay from San Francisco) and the schedule, whether you are traveling East to West, or back, is set so that you pass through the Rockies and the Sierras in daylight. »