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*Total trip miles includes 2,488 air miles to and from Alaska.
**Also includes 5,332 air miles to and from Hawai’i.
An Odyssey Through Covid America
Free ePub
Hello All, It's been a busy couple of months. Four or five now? What month is it? Anyway, I finished one of my projects and it is now available on Amazon. The ePub is available free for the last five days of Mental Health Awareness Month, now through the 31st. I...
“A Visual Companion” Completed
Yes, yes, yes: I was spacing out these posts section by section. But then the project got away from me. And it was a project! Maybe I went a little overboard? But I wanted to wrap this up to move on to the next projects. I am working on the third (and possibly final)...
A Visual Journey Part Four
The project over two years in the making is coming along. I bring you part four: Ghosting Through the South. This is harder than it looks. All respect to photo editors and photographers. I took thousands of photos along my odyssey through Covid America. I am going...
A Visual Journey Part Three
Drifting in the Current The house was sold, the new owners were moving in the following day, and the car was kind of packed–I’d get better at it as I went. I made that last left turn out of my driveway, the right onto my bootlegging back road that would take me into...
Part Two: Struggling in Lockdown
Struggling in Lockdown “Struggling in Lockdown” is Part One of the book. Part One is where I struggled the most in writing the book, only second to the final part. I hadn’t hit my stride yet, gotten my rhythm. Rewriting it for the book was difficult, trying to piece...
Part One: Foreword
Is this thing still working? Do I still have subscribers? Anyway... A project that has been on my mind since I first thought of my road trip through Covid America was a Coffee Table type book, just a surface swim through my experiences and less than ideal photography...
That’s a Wrap!
...and that is a sucky title for the final column. Toes in the sand? The end of the beginning? Across 50 states? How do you you wrap up 40,000 miles through 50 states and 110 columns over five months? Anything I write will seem anti climatic to me. But these are all...
Hiking to Papakolea
It was tough figuring out which picture to use as the "featured image." Papakolea Beach is my favorite place. Ever. I think it is the uniqueness of it. There are only four green sand beaches in the world and one is right next to South Point on the Big Island. (The...
Pilgrimage
As the sun sets on this adventure, how could I not make a pilgrimage to KOA Coffee Plantation, the coffee I have been trying to better this entire trip? It came close in Alaska but everything else just palled in comparison. So, I went back down south, to Kona, the...
Makai and Mauka
I hate making generalizations about people, but I found two generalizations that have fit everybody I have met from Hawai'i. The first is, off the islands, Hawaiians have absolutely no sense of direction. They can lost in a parking lot. North, south, left, right? It...
The Circuit
And around we go. I wasn't planning on doing it today. The weather on the Big Island can be hit or miss believe it or not. It really is like a microcosm of the US. Depending on where I am on the island, and what elevation, I can go from 60-80 degrees. On the dry side...
State #50
Well, close to a year after I first expected to be here, and after 5 months, 49 states and about 32,000 miles, I finally made it back to the Big Island of Hawai'i. A journey through 50 states of Covid America has come to a close. I am going to cheat a little bit here....
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