I like to explore and tell descriptive stories about places. I also make jewelry, music and mixed-media art.
originally posted April 2010 Jessica Powell and Brian Goforth want to bathe in a waterfall as a wedding ritual. Her dress will not just sit in the closet for years after their wedding, wearable but unworn; she will let the water and the rocks rip the dress into a mess of memories. And they will […]
Read More Go Forth into the Waterfall: Pisgah and Dupont Forests, North CarolinaOriginally written April, 2010 Travel dates: March, 2010 It’s been two weeks since the latest coal mining disaster in West Virginia, and this one has received considerable media attention. This being an explosion inside a mine in the town of Montcoal, about 30 miles southwest of Charleston (the link just above has a detailed map […]
Read More COAL, INTERRUPTED: Coal River, West VirginiaThe mural is on Crenshaw Blvd between 50th and 52nd Sts. This is a part of the mural. Visited March 2015
Read More Crenshaw Mural of African-American Progress, Los Angeles, CAMarch, 2015 I have a work gig in San Diego, which would be my first visit to California’s most southern coastal city. The weather is fabulous – sunny and 70’s-80’s temperatures – and the people here are calm and happy (and probably spoiled). Balboa Park, home of the famous San Diego zoo, also has […]
Read More San Diego, CAthe Eureka Inn Eureka, CA, October 2013 From the thick woods of Humboldt county, Eureka and Arcata feel like big pillars of civilization, sister city-states on the Humboldt Bay guarded on three sides by rugged mountains. Of course, facing northwest on the Pacific coast, this area is often cool and foggy. I had heard tales […]
Read More Eureka, CA: “Eureeka’s Castle”Dates of travel – 25 July – 6 August, 2015 Date of writing – Autumn, 2017 This week i look back to those difficult 10 days i spent volunteering at a well-known reserve deep in the Peruvian rainforest, but did not want to go public about what happened there until now. While staying at the […]
Read More Beauty, Abuse, and Isolation in the Deep Forest – Tapiche ReserveIQUITOS to YURIMAGUAS, ida-vueltaAUGUST 2015 I am aboard the Eduardo VIII, one of the legendary slow boats known as lanchas that go along the wide rivers of the Amazon region in lowland South America. The word lancha means ‘barge’ and they transport cargo, including foods, propane tanks, and even mototaxis; they also carry passengers at […]
Read More LANCHAS, SLOW BOATS of the AMAZONAugust 17, 2015Arriving in the port of Yurimaguas after three days on a dreamy lancha boat filled with bored men, I am ready to bathe in a cool pool in the deep forest. First, however, it’s two or three hours in a crowded combi across the Cordillera Escalara, the last mountain range before the rivers […]
Read More Tarapoto, Lamas, Moyobamba: the Yungas of San Martin, PeruHere I am at an internet enfoq in a neighborhood in Iquitos, Loreto, Peru, the heart of the Peruvian Amazon, a good place as any to begin these travel stories. This blog will focus on Peru and Bolivia for a while since that is my current journey, but will eventually include places in North America […]
Read More birth in Iquitos…..August, 2015 In the morning, I leave with my host to Quistochocha, the zoological park, nature park, botanic garden, and lake, on the carretera just beyond the airport out of Iquitos. It’s very beautiful, with big old trees, green ponds, and a large beach. However, the animals are mostly in cages: some large, some […]
Read More QUISTOCOCHA: CAGED ANIMALS and a SWIMMING LAGOON for humans
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