Today I crossed the Mississippi River at St. Louis in a crowd of traffic. Between the dirty sides of tractor trailers and over the troubled stares of the daily commuters rose a giant arch. St. Louis. The gateway to the West. What a place this must have been once, with the steam ships plying the [...]
Archive for January, 2012
West
Posted in meanderings, travel, tagged arch, dead, hawks, highway, missouri, ohio, st. louis, travel on January 11, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Leaving Vermont
Posted in travel, Vermont, tagged pines, vermont, west on January 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My name is Daniel Harrington. I’m 38 years old, and I just left a steady job, my family and friends, health insurance, and many belongings in order to pack up an old Toyota truck and drive West. Again. It is a recurring theme in my life, this migration. It first happened in 1995, when I [...]
Category Cloud
Posts by Month
- February 2012 (1)
- January 2012 (2)
- August 2011 (4)
- July 2011 (14)
- June 2011 (6)
- May 2011 (1)
- April 2011 (3)
- March 2011 (3)
- February 2011 (1)
- October 2010 (2)
- September 2010 (1)
- August 2010 (3)
- July 2010 (3)
- June 2010 (1)
- May 2010 (3)
- April 2010 (6)
- March 2010 (4)
- February 2010 (8)
- January 2010 (10)
- December 2009 (9)
- July 2009 (2)
- June 2009 (8)
- March 2008 (8)
- February 2008 (3)
- January 2008 (6)
-
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
