Nomad exploring life wherever I am
Since leaving Arkansas in early June, I’ve driven 99% back roads to get from place to place. From Missouri to Illinois, Kentucky to Indiana, and on to Ohio, it’s been a slow roll and scenic set of rides. And it is so much more relaxing for me to go 45-55 mph with no one in my rearview mirror much of the time.
You might have noticed that I take a lot of photos 🙂 Some of my favorites never make it into a post. So here are five photos from the last several weeks that deserve a showing. All of them were taken with my new iPhone13, which — I’ll be honest — I mostly bought for the cameras, especially since I cracked the lens on my iPhone12 a while back and so one of its two cameras was kind of unpredictable (think “unwanted lens flare”). This one was an experiment using the phone camera in macro mode. I’m really impressed with…
It only took me six years but I finally camped by the shores of the all five Great Lakes: Ontario, Erie, Huron, Michigan, and Superior. Surprisingly, I camped in just two states to achieve that bucket list item: Michigan and New York. And, no, I really can’t pick a favorite Great Lake, that’s asking way too much of me, a person who has a deep devotion to any body of water bigger than a rain puddle.
After starting the month of June in Arkansas, I made a quick stop at Big Spring, Missouri, before surviving the weather weirdness in Illinois and Kentucky that defined my mid-month. From there I had three stops in Indiana before ending the month in Ohio. So, yeah, six states in 30 days. I’m definitely making tracks eastbound.
OK, last post about the quilts on display at the National Quilt Museum. After the excitement of a holiday weekend in the US and Canada, you might think “oh, yay, another quilting post” and move on. You can, but you’ll miss puffins and blocks and a wooden quilt if you skip this post…