ROADNOTES-A PURPOSE BUILT HOTEL-THE RUSSELL-LONDON It was daybreak and I was just a few doors from the Horse Hospital by Russell Square Station. My bedroom window was street side. I could hear the voices of workmen heading to their jobs. First a half dozen and then dozens and then perhaps a hundred or more. My …
Buckminster’s Geodesic home can be found in Carbondale, Illinois. He taught there for sometime at Southern Illinois University. Enclosed is a photo of one of “Bucky’s” friends, a mutual friend of mine. Occasionally we hang out in Carbondale with Ornothologists,Geologists, Anthropologists, Archeologists, Botanists and Paleontologists. Buckminster popularized the concepts of geodesic domes and their usefulness …
The pine trees on SailBoard Beach list five degrees off vertical it causes me to wonder and ponder and expound. The tree has made concessions because of incessant wind. The word that describes a plant and it being effected by wind borne elements is called “flagging”. The wind is so consistent in its South and …
The Treaty of Breda-Banda Islands 1667 Today few people know of the Banda Sea, the Banda Islands, few people know the past geopolitical importance. Once considered some of the most commercially strategic islands in the world, their locations were considered national secrets. The spice trade in the 1600’s created more capital gains than any other …
One of the most curious Rocks in Blue Mound State Park. It is aprox. 1.6 billion years old. It has recently re-emerged. With the breaking of the WPA containment dam/swimming pond at the Blue Mounds this boulder has been completely unseen for over seventy five years. It can be found aprox. 100 yards west of …
On the arid Steppes of the Sandia Mountains are the remains of an early farmstead. The bones and stones of the building still remain, I wander around trying to find some idea of the age of the abandon homestead. The mortar in the stonework seems quite intact, it’s placement on the landscape suggest that he …
I travel a lot, I see lots of people and places. I see 10 times more than the average person, I have met between two and three million people in the last twenty years. Few people you know have met that many people. Tomorrow the president is coming to my state. He has chosen this …
I have thought long and hard about visiting this subject and yet the drum beat in my mind has grown louder and louder. I accept many friendships, they are friendships from people that have merit. I don’t go searching for friends and readers on my face book page (perhaps 5%). I’ve even deleted about five …
The plight of a small town retailer. We try to find a balance. Providing a service with which we can modestly profit and yet maintain good customers and patronage. Retail shoplifters circa 1976 I have just followed a person out of my store that I believe has stolen a nice belt buckle. I have paid …
Out of the darkness come two dirty faced young women. The day had been in the 80’s or low 90’s but the intensity of the sun made it hotter than the hubs of hell. We are encamped in Southern Colorado headed home from a distant Art and Craft Fair. We’ve only been on the road …