If you are interested, you can now track us in real time as we travel.  Today we are in San Diego for our friend’s wedding.  Next week, we’re off to Colorado, New York, Canada, and New England to visit friends, family, and old haunts.

We are both excited to visit what was home for us when we were young with the knowledge and freedom we have now as adults.  I’ve added geo-tracking so that our friends and family can watch our progress across the U.S. and tie photos and our travel comments to a geographical location.  This will be fun for us.

Unfortunately we will be focused on getting to New York and our trip through the mid west will be fast with few if any side trips.  I know of caves in Indiana and Illinois that I’d love to visit.  The Glenn near Antioch College, Yellow Springs Ohio might be a side trip as would the air and space museum.  Is it at Dayton or is it Cincinnati?  We’ll sort that out.  I’d love to see a midnight movie at the college (too old for that, am I?), or to grab a hot doughnut at the bakery at 6AM.  I have no idea if either is still on-going.  Then there’s the serpent mounds in Ohio too.

Unfortunately we’ll be buzzing through much of the mid-west.  It looks like a flat field of corn or wheat, but there is so much more to it  when you get off the highway and visit local small towns. Exploring the mid-west, that’s for another adventure.

The United States is vast in size, shape, resources, sports, archaeology, history, produce, diversity, american Indian heritage, art, and architecture to name just a few of the reasons to travel the U.S.   There are so many moments to be cherished.  I recall standing aside a small lake in the early morning watching the mist/fog rise atop the lake and hearing a loon’s plaintiff cry.  Or watching lake trout rise and feed on nymphs in the evening.

We work long and hard through the years making ends meet or doing better.  In the process it is not unusual to break the bonds that tied us to the beauty and mystery of nature.  We look to rekindle that closeness to nature.  It’s something I lost working for decades in cubicles and offices and saw now and then skiing in the Sierra or river kayaking.

Ron