Category: Photographs
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A Good Time to Swim the Tiber
More shots of Rome here.
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At the Hermitage
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Grateful to Live in Arizona
I've lived in Hawaii, Santa Barbara, Boston, and the Midwest, not to mention other places in the USA and abroad: Salzburg, Austria, Freiburg, Germany, and Ankara, Turkey. No place beats Arizona, all things considered. That is a mighty subjective judgment, to be sure, but if a blogger cannot vent his subjectivity, who can? For one…
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I Introduce Two New Friends to the Superstition Mountains
One of the great boons of blogging is that the blogger attracts the like-minded. Below are two medical doctors I had the great pleasure of spending the day with in a satisfying break from my Bradleyan reclusivity. Dave K. found me via this weblog and initiated correspondence, so I knew he would be simpatico. I…
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Halcyon October in the Western Superstitions
Photo credit: Barbara Caffaratti
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Train Bound for Nowhere
Theme music: Kenny Rogers, The Gambler
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The Open Road from the Cockpit of a Jeep Wrangler
Theme music: Eagles, Take it Easy
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Parker Pass, Western Superstitions, March 2019
Dennis M. holds forth.
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Peripatetic Philosophy in the Western Superstitions
Dale Tuggy and I explored some new trails in a four and one half hour ramble out of the Cloudview Trailhead, 30 March 2019. Weather exquisite, companionship excellent, conversation both deep and wide-ranging. Physical condition at the end: righteously tuckered and ready for re-hydration. In a word, beer. 2
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Prandial and Post-Prandial Pleasures
With Brian B. and Mike V. at Los Locos Gringos, my favorite local Mexican eatery. There is nothing better than a good meal and good conversation with like-minded friends. After Mike sped away on his iron horse, Brian and I spent the rest of the afternoon playing chess at Gecko Espresso. Mike, on the right,…
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Snow on Superstition Mountain
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On the Dutchman’s Trail to Parker Pass
My e-mail to Jeff and Dennis: Weather forecast looks favorable. The Sage of the Superstitions will take you boys on a pussy cat hike and introduce you to Parker Pass. I don't believe you two have been out this way. Out and back, 4. 6 miles. Little elevation change, but a number of creek crossings.…
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Kerouac in Scollay Square
Beatific October, Kerouac month hereabouts, is at its sad redbrick end once again and it is time for me to stop the hyper-romantic Jacking off. From On the Road:
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Kerouac Alley
A Northern California reader sends this photo of a street scene in the vicinity of City Lights Bookstore, San Francisco. I made a 'pilgrimage' to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's famous bookstore in the early '70s. That was before the Kerouac street sign was up. Some of Ferlinghetti's poetry can be read here. To my surprise, Ferlinghetti is…
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From Peralta to First Water: A Tribute to Lloyd Glaus
This morning I received the news that my neighbor and fellow hiker Lloyd Glaus had died. What follows is a redacted entry from an earlier pre-Typepad version of this weblog in which I reported on a memorable trans-Superstition hike we took together over ten years ago, on 29 October 2007, when Lloyd was 75 years…