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Perhaps the nicest respite from one's own thoughts is the aural buffeting one finds facing windward on a ferry beating into shore. I...

It's all about the picture.

Hatteras lays 18 miles ahead. I can't see it from here, but I have faith it's there. The Cape Hatteras National Seashore is a welcome...

After a long ferry ride from Cedar Island, Ocracoke was a nice respite from the sense of stuck-ness I had last night. Most of the island...

The ferry from Cedar Island, NC, to Ocracoke, NC, turned out to be an undocumented feature in Google Maps. That is, what looked like a...

If one turns one's back to the hotels and mayhem, the flashing lights and honking distraction, and focuses upon the waves, their endless...

I'm sorry if this is one of your special places, but it's not one of mine, and I'm certain it wouldn't have suited Tracy, either. What a...

I wish she'd gotten to see the houses and trees along the streets of Charleston. It's such a charming city - it would take weeks to...

So it occurred to me, while sleeping no less, that I was on the correct coast to maybe watch a launch real-time as I am in South...

Her laughter filled the caverns of merchandise, her friend slapped a knee in reciprocity. It was a moment of human nature, laid bare and...

From flying high through earth's best splendor, to solving life's quarter-driven Kafkaesque dryers, gobbling metal disks, incrementing...

If you look to the right side of this ordinary Walmart photo, you'll notice a man, sitting. If you study it, you'll find he's sitting on...

I finally managed to upload a few short videos for those who contributed music, or aided in the musical journey. My intent was to use...

A short, one might say breezy, four-thousand seven hundred eighteen miles, and a bit, and I'm ensconced in a deluxe Days Inn outside my...

The Foxy Loxy Cafe in Savannah is the type of coffee place you wished existed everywhere but hardly actually exists anywhere. It...

My friend Jonathan writes good books, which you should buy and read and share with friends, but I like him because he's a nice guy. And...

When I hear the croaky tones of Stevie Nicks, I always think of one thing: Tim Ashbaugh, or as everyone called him, Timmy. I haven't seen...

Of course I got the large To-Go cup of coffee at the Waffle House. Of course the lid didn't quite fit. Of course I told myself, "It'll be...

What can I say? It has been the ruin of many a poor boy. Ok, so they technically didn't SAY it was a Waffle House, but the Waffle House...

As of this morning I was yet to be initiated into the southern religious waffle sect (though non-denominational) and baptized in the...