When will we ever get done arguing about invisible men in the sky? [More]

I really hope people are checking out and digging my little travel diary/reminiscence thing and the photos.  I’m only just now getting into the mountains on my way out – there are dozens of pictures to share from NC to CA, in CA, and all the way back to MI.  I hope my “narration” has the intended effect of being entertaining and personalizing, rather than dull and tedious.  There are some really gorgeous photos going up, and more coming (of better quality, too…).  I might even work on some video of the trip tonight, if I have any captured. (Update – I do have plenty capped,... [More]

In spite of realizing at the moment it happened that it was wholly irrational, I found myself surprised to not just go directly to mountain vistas the minute I crossed the state line from Kansas into Colorado on I-70. This is where the road dog in me started drooling...I'd never seen REAL mountains in my memory. I went out to Colorado with my family when I was like two years old, but I have zero memory of the trip (although my earliest memories can't be much later than that).  All my life I’ve enjoyed making pencil sketches of landscapes with mountains and cliffs and trees.  I fee... [More]

As I’ve been going through these photos and preparing them for web publication, I realize that most of my stills weren’t taken until I hit the mountains.  Falls Lake is a large man-made lake on the Neuse river north of Raleigh and Durham.  The photo here was taken from the bridge on I-85, which is between Oxford and Durham.  From here I proceeded west across the state via I-85 and then I-40, which carried me out of North Carolina “for good.”  West out of North Carolina, I stayed on I-40 through Knoxville, TN to Nashville, where I cut northwest via I-24, and I was offi... [More]

Part 1: Apps, Games, Causes, etc. Part 2: Fans, Friends, and Family [More]

This is the same intersection as the previous photo, but looking to the right (northwest) rather than the left.  This direction leads you to Old NC Highway 75, which is one route to Durham, NC.  US-15 also runs along this street for a bit; in this direction a few blocks away, a veer to the south will put you on 15 proper bound for Creedmoor and Durham, NC and, eventually Sanford, Southern Pines, and with a turn or two, Cameron, where I used to hang out with some old friends of mine.  US158, which I described running east in the previous post, does also run west, but not from t... [More]