Category: travel
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The colour brown: boring or eloquent?
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Brown is a September colour; it always makes me think of ‘back-to-school’, of walnuts and chestnuts on the ground, the bindings of books, tree leaves changing to tan and rust and fluttering off branches to dance on the wind. I don’t think brown gets enough respect. While it’s not flashy,…
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Beware the Headless Horseman! — Sleepy Hollow Country in NY State
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My childhood was shaped by an eerie scene of cattails alongside a road that were beating, in the rising wind, a tattoo like ghostly hoofbeats upon a dark and lonely road. I’ve loved Disney’s The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949), an animated adaptation narrated by Bing Crosby, from…
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Fall adventure: road trips
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Crisp fresh air, the colours and scents of autumn, funky small towns and eateries you wouldn’t discover any other way – it’s hard to beat a fall road trip for an all-encompassing travel adventure. Post-pandemic, there’s not much planning required for a road trip – decide the general area,…
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For info on visiting the Trinity Bomb Site, see my companion blog
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The full post about my visit to the Trinity Site in New Mexico last year can be found on my Inspire Me! blog.
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Historical research – a wealthy 1800s estate
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While I love doing research online for historical authenticity — let’s face it, I could get lost for hours — there’s nothing to beat actually visiting a historic site to give a writer all the fine nuances of life on a grand estate. To that end, hubby and I spend…
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International Women’s Day and Nellie Bly
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My laptop has been fixed (problem with the charging port) and I though I’d post what I’d planned for last week, in celebration of the many great women throughout history – and in this case, a writer. In the late 1800s, at a time when the majority of women had…
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Longing for longer days and slower paths
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“There is nothing like walking to get the feel of a country. A fine landscape is like a piece of music; it must be taken at the right temp. Even a bicycle goes too fast.” – Paul Scott Mowrer Life moves quickly. Before we know it, the week has flown…
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Blue Tuesday/Wednesday
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I started writing this post on Tuesday, which stretched into today due to the complexity of the subject, so the title was adapted for my own reality 😊 The colour blue is wildly popular around the world, but I have to confess that it’s not one of my favourites. I…
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A great book leads to a great movie and then an amazing travel experience
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“Sometimes we gazed through a succession of arches, its course very like the aisles of a Gothic cathedral. The great artistic sculptors and builders of the Middle Ages might have here completed their studies with advantage.” Chapter 16, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, by Jules Verne ***…