Road Trip
Hi, As I recall from casual reading, when Dwight Eisenhower was a young officer in the United States Army he was involved in a convoy across a good-sized chunk of the nation. I suppose that it was an inefficient and time-consuming journey which he never forgot. Our present trip is something like that too. But […]
Continue reading about Highways and Trails, Museums and Monuments
Hi, In and around Cincinnati we’ve visited three museums. They may not be the best or biggest in town and they certainly aren’t exhaustive of the options–the GPS sees dozens of museums in the metropolitan area. But they’re each, in their own way, pretty important public spaces, in my opinion. The first is the American […]
I was all set to tell you about the geology and geography of Southern Ohio and how it related to that of West Virginia, and then this naked guy materialized in a golf cart. But really, geography and geology are very important things and should preempt him for the moment, if for no reasons other […]
Hi, After two years of “retirement” we’ve still got the American pattern pretty well ingrained. The urge is to push for a few more miles, pass through one more county, and just another hour before we stop for the day. The tendency is to want to get there as quickly as possible. But suppose “there” […]
Unlike Ontario, where golf appears to be the common avocation of citizens and the true calling of real estate speculators, no one in West Virginia appears to care for the game. Maybe this is due to the inherent sensibleness of West Virginians. Or maybe it’s because there’s not a spot of level ground in the […]