Prone to Wander: Less Krakauer, More Bryson

Unless you’re disposed to picking up hitchhikers, you typically know your traveling companions when starting a road trip.
I usually don’t have this luxury.  Most of my trips involve me traveling thousands of miles with complete strangers to areas of the globe where I...
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Road Trip: The Blues Highway

Sometimes, a road is just a road.  Sometimes, it is something so much more.  That is precisely the case when it comes to Route 61, otherwise known as the Blues Highway, which runs from the city of Wyoming, Minnesota to New Orleans, Louisiana. Spanning 1,400 miles and generally...
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The Big Four Fauna of Lowcountry

This time it isn’t majestic mountain peaks or an endless expanse of red desert.  It’s not a bustling urban center teeming with busybodies, or even the deep blue waters of a great ocean.  What’s struck me most about this week’s travel through coastal Georgia...
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The Angel Oak

You don’t so much as walk beneath the Angel Oak as you do within and among it.  As I made my own approach, I felt it greeting my arrival with a warm embrace, its arms extending around and beyond me almost two hundred feet in all directions.  The gnarled body of...
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