Belly, belly good

One thing about New York that is instantly evid­ent in com­par­ison to the mid-west­ern towns we’ve been passing through is the qual­ity of the food, although we did have one excel­lent example of unusu­ally good road food in a little town called Le Claire on the...
Deadwood Country

Deadwood Country

In a par­al­lel world, where I was still with hawk_eye, or if I were a world trav­eler like mer­ovingian, I would have more details for you of the self who split off from me as we made the decision to go down I‑90 to Rapid City instead of 385...
The great American roadtrip

The great American roadtrip

Spent today in Yel­low­stone National Park. Mostly it was closed – we missed it by a couple of days, as it closed for the season Novem­ber 5. Apo­lo­gies to all in Seattle we failed to see (espe­cially bevsob: I was really hoping to say bye before we left...
Deadwood Country

The only way to travel

Our last day in Cuzco was the day of the national census. To our aston­ish­ment, everything was closed. We had planned to get a bus to Maras, a taxi to Moray and then a bus back to Chinchero for the Sunday market. With no buses run­ning, we ended up...