I often describe my job as the best job in the world, as well as the
worst. I have been on the road for over twelve years and flown over
fifteen hundred times. I have often thought that if travel makes you a
better writer, well, I'm a shoe-in for a Pulitzer. I have worked in every
major city in the United States with the exception of New Orleans and
Phoenix, and four times as many small towns. I have worked on four
continents. What is lost in family time is gained in travel experiences.
Perhaps the most valuable aspect of all this is that I travel not as a
tourist restricted by time and schedule, but as a traveler, where I meet
and eat and laugh and talk with normal, every day people. Their stories
are as varied as the places I find them in. The following Travelogues are
vignettes of a life lived on the road.
The Big Trees - Fresno, California
The Expatriot - Ambergris Cay, Belize
The Sundance Kid - Salt Lake City, Utah
Field of Dreams - Dyersville, Iowa
A Visit With Henry - Concord, Massachusetts
Ferry Tales - The Inside Passage, Alaska
The Land of Expensive Beer - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Coincidence on the Road - Fife, Washington
Andre's Problemo - Barracas. Argentina
Meet Mickey Rooney - Toronto, Ontario
The Call of the Wild - Stewart River, Yukon Territory
Trawlerman - Gloucester, Massachusetts
Loneliness in Bexar - San Antonio, Texas
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About the USA - (And were sorry you asked)
The Disease - San Francisco, California
The Magic Bullet - Dallas, Texas
A Box of Rain - Cape Rich, Ontario
The Pugilist - St. John, New Brunswick
October - Dover, Massachusetts
Friends in Lo Places - Changi Village, Singapore
The Rookies - Palmer, Massachusetts
What I Knew and When I Knew It - Doolin, Ireland
Little Charlie - Plymouth, Massachusetts
The Musher - Whitehorse, Yukon Territory
So Little Time - Muskegon, Michigan
The Sourtoe Cocktail - Dawson City, Yukon Territory
The Metamorphosis - Nashville, Tennessee
The Adventures of Mr. Moran - Westport, Ireland
Mercury Rising - Lowell, Massachusetts
Stoney's - Crawfordsville, Indiana
A Glimpse From Afar - Del Ixtapalapa, Mexico
Of Irony, Memory, and Lt. Dorst - Sequoia National Park, California
The Dance - St. Petersburg, Florida
The Con Job - Sacramento, California
Of Splendid Splinters - Crossville, Tennessee
Being Earnest Kerouac - Guadalajara, Mexico
The Oboe Baroque - Somewhere, Pennsylvania
Statesboro Blues - Statesboro, Georgia
Sunrise - Bryce Canyon, Utah
A Little Help From My Friends - Columbus, Ohio ...
What I Love - Mansfield, Massachusetts
Gus at the Poop Deck - Hermosa Beach, California
Honky-Tonk Bach - McAllen, Texas
His Share of the Load - Lake Louise, Alaska
Keeping Them - San Juan Del Rio, Mexico
Drunk Town, USA - Gallup, New Mexico
The Kicker - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
In A Word - Mihara, Japan
A Truth That Sometimes Lies - La Honda, California
Where the Living Envied the Dead - Hiroshima, Japan
Just Another Meeting - Culiacan, Mexico
All Quiet on the Western Front - Hermosa Beach, California
No Problem - Grand Rapids, Michigan
The New Englanders - Norwood, Massachusetts
The Future - Brooklyn, New York
Lakes Without Lights - Flagstaff Lake, Maine
The Great Abyss - Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
Audiography - Death Valley, California
The Palm Pilot - Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hope for the Future - Killington, Vermont
