Late afternoon, 1969: Western Pennsylvania, headed west on a Greyhound, on a trip whose purpose I no longer remember. The picture seems to me like a moment poised between past and present, future uncertain.
If I knew the exact spot, I really think I’d go there to see what has happened in 45 years!
A visit to the Desert View Watchtower on the eastern portion of the Grand Canyon’s South Rim. Constructed in the 1930s, it offers magnificent canyon views and a tie to the Native American history of the Canyon.
I was visiting a friend, and this was the view from their house. I could understand why they built their house facing this direction. I was taken by the beauty!
Samantha shares some street art pictures from her recent trip to Bogotá, Colombia.
A garden in South Wales is the topic of today’s post from ProfessorAbe
DrFumblefinger shares photos of the Fitz Roy Massif, one of the most famous and difficult to climb peaks in the world, situated in Patagonia.
Vienna’s Clock Museum, one of the biggest and best of its kind doesn’t really have 10,000 clocks, but you’d never know that as you get lost in its world of time.
The oldest monumental fountain in Paris has a long history of rebuilding, renaming and relocating
This is all the clue there is: Is it enough for you to name the scene of a future TravelGumbo blog? Email answers by Monday midnight to [email protected]
I never like to take credit for someone else’s work, but in this case I may have done the opposite. By error, this picture originally posted attributed to Walker Evans, but it is my own, and Evans remains one of my deities.
DrF…Pennsylvania is well worth exploring, with its tremendous variation between the coastal plain, the Alleghenies stretching in bands across much of the center, lush rural areas to the south, hardscrabble mining and forests in the northeast…and more.
An interesting thought: rural locations are sometimes hard to place, because although what is common in one area may still exist, even if less usual, in another. Absent something like the lavender of Provence in bloom…sometimes it’s tough!
Sometime in the next few months, by the way, I’ll be revisiting a fascinating part of Pennsylvania’s history with a visit to the state’s chain of museums documenting the anthracite coal industry. Watch for it here!
Looking at the photo, my guess would have been some place in Northern Idaho or Western Montana.
I’d have never thought it was in Western Pennsylvania. Perhaps time I pay the place a visit.