I have been conflicted about the future of this blog for awhile, thus my lack of posting. Had always wanted to start a travel blog. Always imagined my travel blog as something immediate, something linear, something recorded WHILE traveling rather than after the fact. My goal had been to report travels in real-time, but the […]
Author: wanderbeth
Texas Speed Bumps
My mother called me on the second day of my drive, when I was in Indiana, to tell me about the election. From there, the conversation went in a different direction. “So, what kind of roadkill are you seeing out there?” “Why,” I asked, “are you hungry? Do you want me to pick some up? […]
Oklahoma is okay…
In Missouri and Oklahoma, Covid doesn’t exist. Apparently. My last impression of MO and my first impression of OK were both rest stops where no one was wearing masks. Now, I’m used to seeing young people in Philadelphia unmasked, but I’ve only seen this outside as every indoor establishment requires masks. Here, it didn’t even […]
Meet me in St. Louis
Saturday, November 7, 2020 at 10:38 AM, I was somewhere on I-70 between Richmond and Indianapolis, Indiana when I heard the news. My coworker, with whom I share politics as a guilty pleasure and CNN as reality TV, texted me three words. CNN called it. The phone rang. It was my mother. The nightmare was […]
We named the dog Indiana.
I left late. I always leave late. Finally on the road at 10:15, I settled into my journey on the familiar 76. My destination: Indiana. I had never driven to Indiana before. Flew there once. Indianapolis. Drove to Michigan on a couple occasions. Traversed Ohio more times than I care to remember. I always listen […]
Ants in my Pants
“You’re still going?” my upstairs neighbor asked. “Yes, I’m still going.” My next door neighbor/associate ruler in the all-too-familiar dystopian political entity that is a condo association/closest quarantine friend and I locked eyes just a little too long in one of those silences louder than words as we performed an autopsy on a doorknob at […]