The Last Waltz – Oregon’s Pacific Coast. This is the final post in the Pacific Northwest series: the Pacific coast following the Oregon Coast Highway (U.S. Route 101) southward all the way to the […]
Portland
The Northwest – Portland This is the second-to-last post in the Pacific Northwest series. We will visit together the City of Roses: Portland, Oregon. Most of these photos are from the epic 2015 Washington-to-Oregon-to-California drive, […]
Columbia River Highway
The Columbia River Highway. The Pacific Northwest series continues. This post will cover a relatively short distance: about 45 miles (72.5 km) on the Historic Columbia River Highway Scenic Byway in Oregon. The highway – about […]
Port Townsend WA to Hood River OR
The Pacific Northwest – the Olympic Peninsula to the Columbia River. Love lift us up where we belong Where the eagles cry On a mountain high Love lift us up where we belong Far […]
Seattle
The Northwest – Seattle & Tacoma. In a final series before I put the blog on hold for an extended period we are going to do a drive starting out in Seattle, Washington, in […]
Erie Canal to Waterford and the Hudson
To the Hudson River. We are at the end of what was for me one of my more enjoyable road trips: the entire length of the Erie Canal! I think a big reason it […]
Syracuse Eastward
Syracuse, Utica and the Eastern Canal. Greetings. This is the next-to-last post in my Erie Canal series. Last post we got to the outskirts of Syracuse in upstate New York. In this post, among other […]
The Finger Lakes
It’s a Wonderful Life In this new post of my Erie Canal series we’ll be starting the drive through the central portion of the canal region. Having stopped off in Rochester (see previous post) we […]
Rochester – the Kodak City
“You Press the Button, We Do the Rest” The subject of this post is Rochester, New York, by the Erie Canal. Among its claims to fame the city was the birthplace in 1880 of […]
Erie Canal – Lockport to Pittsford
Lockport to Pittsford in the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor. Welcome back to this continuing series on my adventures along the Erie Canal in the summer of 2018. Up to now it has been […]
Buffalo to Tonawanda
Buffalo to Tonawanda. My 2018 drive along the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor now starts. In this post in my series on the Erie Canal and upstate New York we will say goodbye to […]
Architecture of Buffalo
Buffalo! Happy New Year, dear readers. This is the last post of 2021. We will have a look around Buffalo, New York, on Lake Erie, the starting point of the Erie Canal. In 2018 […]
Silo City in Buffalo
Silo City and Elevator Alley, Buffalo. With this post I am going to start the journey along the length of the famed Erie Canal in upstate New York. Our starting point: the Buffalo River […]
Cuba: More People & Places
Havana to Trinidad. Bienvenido (welcome back)! This is it. The final Cuba post in the series. Al final del camino (the end of the road). It has been totally fun to share these posts, and […]
Cuba: People & Places
Hi everyone. We are nearing the end of the Cuba series. This will likely be the second-to-last post. In it we are going to leave Havana again as we did in the post at the […]
Mid-century Havana
Mid-Century Havana Hi, everyone. It’s July already – that is hard to believe. I started this Cuba series back in March. It’s the Fourth of July – Independence Day – today, our bank holiday commemorating […]
The music of Cuba
La Musica de Cuba. The music is everywhere in Cuba. This is one of the things that really stood out on the two trips to Cuba. And what music! Every cafe and restaurant seemed […]
Rafael Trejo Boxing Gym
Rafael Trejo Boxing Gym. Hi again everyone. We are back in Havana. During the first Cuba workshop in December 2014 we paid a visit to the famed Rafael Trejo Gimnasio al Aire Libre (Rafael Trejo […]
Viñales Valley
Tobacco Road. Welcome back, everyone! It’s time for another Cuba set from my photography workshops there in December 2014 and January 2019. During both trips we made the journey out to a very special part […]
Havana street photography
Havana street photography – the third in a series of photographs taken on my two trips to Cuba in Dec. 2014 and January 2019. This post will have a few more car photos, including the […]
Looking for old Havana
Exploring historic Havana. This is the second in a series covering my two trips to Cuba in Dec. 2014 and January 2019 with the Jay Seldin photography workshop groups. This post is a split between […]
Cuba! Paseo del Prado and El Malecón in Havana
A stroll from Parque Central to the Malecón in Havana. Welcome back, everyone. ¡Bienvenidos! The travel blog is back online after about a two month break. During the approximately three year period I have been […]
Return to Virginia
The Virginia Colony New Year’s greetings! Here’s wishing you a happy, healthy New Year and many exciting travels, too. This will be my first post of 2020 and also my last one from last year’s […]
Up the North Carolina Coast
The North Carolina Coast Hi everyone. I hope you are enjoying the holiday season. It’s time again for another post from the trip to the US South. I had planned to finish the series by […]
Back in North Carolina
Town & Country – the North Carolina countryside in monochrome. In my current series on the American South, the last post got us as far as South Carolina’s Grand Strand just below the North Carolina […]
Sea Islands to the Grand Strand
The Drive North. Hello again, everyone. The Southern Road Trip continues but it is time to turn around and head home. In this post, we will start the drive northward back to New York. We […]
The Lowcountry Plantations
The Lowcountry Plantations A few miles northwest of central Charleston is the start of the Ashley River Road (Route 61). In this post, that’s where we are headed after we cross over to the other […]
Charleston
Images of Charleston. As my journeys in the US South continue please join me on a walking tour of old Charleston. It’s a beautiful city. Gorgeous architecture and so much has been saved (which is […]
In the Carolinas
The Pee Dee River in the North Carolina Piedmont to the Ashley River in the South Carolina Lowcountry. In this new post from my journeys in the American South we are going to cover about […]
Virginia’s Blue Ridge Parkway to the North Carolina Piedmont
The Blue Ridge Mountains to the Tobacco Country and the Carolinas Our journey southward progresses. In the previous post we made it all the way to the northern end of the famed Blue Ridge Parkway […]
Virginia’s foothills
Home will always be Virginia ‘tween the Blue Ridge and Chesapeake Bay Atlantic to Appalachia Home in my heart always (Page Wilson) Our journey to the American South continues. This post: the Potomac to the […]
Southern road trip
And now for something completely different. We are heading South. This is a new series in a very different part of the country for this blog: the American South. Mostly, the photos in this post […]
Ventura to Shell Beach
This is it. The third and final post in the series on the Southern California coast. Last time we got as far as Point Mugu in the southwestern corner of Ventura County. Today we’ll start […]