Category Archives: musings
emptiness
Imagine you’re living in Manhattan. As soon as you wake up, the city assaults you with the traffic noises from outside your apartment. When you draw back the blinds, there’s more activity in the streets below than your eyes and … Continue reading
Call it Crazy
How many times have any of us seen people working on a project that would not be finished in their lifetime? Civil rights activists, scientists . . . I guess there are quite a few when you think about it. … Continue reading
These Badlands Ain’t Getting Any Better
It’s like there was a big, flat, thick oatmeal cookie covered in grass. Some giant, Paul Bunyan perhaps, or maybe a bison, came along and bit down deep into the cookie, breaking off a chunk that crumbled into smaller pieces, … Continue reading
disjointed
I realize that the blog posts so far have been a bit disjointed. There are no daily summaries of the places we visited that day. I, as Dr Data, assigned myself the task of doing this early on, knowing that … Continue reading
The documentation of experience and the experience of documentation
On our end, even though little of it has been posted, this trip is extremely well documented, far better than any trip I’ve been on. We often have have an audio recorder on in the car, during meals, and on … Continue reading
Mahler
Yesterday as we were describing the proposed itinerary to folks we had just met, one of them asked what the theme song for the trip was. I replied, “Mahler.” He asked which piece, and I said “the complete symphonies.” Then … Continue reading
Geographically challenged
So during one of our planning sessions last week (yes of course we had planning sessions, we wouldn’t embark on our Grand Adventure with no planning, would we), THE RECORDER mentioned that he would be learning a lot of geography … Continue reading
The Road to Mt Rushmore, 2010 