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Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder
After five months of traveling through the flat-lands of Florida and the Gulf Coast, I was genuinely delighted to see mountains again. I didn’t realize how much I missed them until I saw the rolling hills of the Great Smokies for the first time. Even though we’ve been moving once or twice a week, the dramatic change in landscape made it feel like we landed someplace completely different. As much as we’ve loved our last couple dozen stops, this somehow feels new and fresh; like travel is supposed to.
Until Justice Rolls Down Like Waters
His murderers had every reason to believe that Emmett Till would simply vanish beneath the water like so many other ‘negros’ had. Mutilated, beaten, and shot in the head, his body was discovered bound with barbed wire to a 70-pound cotton gin fan at the bottom of the Tallahatchie River. The 14-year-old boy’s crime: allegedly flirting with a white woman. Continue Reading →
Shelter from the Storm
Patrons wiz by Shakespeare to grab a seat for Julius Caesar
In Montgomery, Alabama, we found something that reminded us of the best of Manhattan. For a decade, an annual summer tradition of ours was seeing Shakespeare productions at the open-air Delacorte Theater in Central Park with our friend Charlie, who joined us in the Deep South for some play-going. Continue Reading →
West and Wewaxation at Wast
We did nothing, nothing, in Dauphin Island, Alabama. We wore ourselves out in New Orleans, and spent our days here relaxing, rejuvenating and catching up on things that we’d put off. The beaches here aren’t especially pretty, and the Gulf Coast oil rigs can be seen wherever you turn, but we didn’t care. Sometimes you just need to recharge your batteries, and this was a good place to do just that.
Everywhere Once 