21 Stones

From the egg I am present, more lasting than brass. In good time with stronger reason. Well found, good friend, enjoy the present very earne...

PAR HASARD by chance January 11, West Haven, Connecticut, Bradley Point, island

We arrived in West Haven on Saturday evening, returned the car, got one dog back, collapsed. Sunday we unpacked, pick up my car from Lyme a...

MUTLUM IN PARVO much in little January 7, New Haven Tweed airport, bench

MEUM ET TUUM mine and thine January 7, Maybrook, New York TA station post

MA FOI by my faith January 7, Pennsyl- vania route 81 Promised Land truck stop phone booth

L'INCONNU the unknown January 7, Carlisle, Pennsyl- vania Super 8 Motel fountain

INTER NOS between ourselves January 6, Somerset, Pennsylvania Summit Diner, newspaper box

Somewhere on route 70 in Ohio. Night. Trucks.

IN POSSE in possibility January 6, Ohio route 70 BP station pump

Ohio, we hardly knew you. A late start from Indiana today, as colds and unidenti- fied stomach ailments persist. A 10 1/2 hour straight thr...

FIAT LUX let there be light January 6, Martins- ville, Indiana Starbucks, table

2 day stop with more of the Gasteyer family. Karl getting help with the candles of his cake.

EN ROUTE on the way January 4, Beverly Shores, Indiana, gazebo

A side trip to see the small town Karl's family comes from on Lake Michigan. The train station; the beach; sand.

Chicago! A stop we've been looking forward to, though it's cold and wet, and Karl and I have both reached the physical meltdown poi...

ENFIN at last, finally January 3, Chicago Vetran's Memorial, steps

The remains of a lost airport being turned into a park on the lake; a night walk over the river; the theater where Karl's cousin Ana is...

Illinois, route 55 north, exit 72. The first poor weather in the 10 days of our trip.

DE NOVO anew January 2, St. Louis arch, bench

The arch; an Emerson quote from the Lewis and Clark museum underneath; a billboard.

DEGAGE free, easy, unconstrained January 2, New Florence, Missouri, giant chair

CON AMORE very earnestly January 1, Kansas City, Missouri, Tanners sports bar, curb

Our longest drive in one day so far, 11 hours with one dinner stop. We saw a lot of this: very very flat landscapes with cattle, windmills ...

I suck it up for a tourist photo with Toto; sites of the Dorothy's House Museum; dirty shoes on a very clean yellow brick road.

CARPE DIEM enjoy the present January 1, Liberal, Kansas, Dorothy's House, yellow brick road

New Years Eve sunset over Oklahoma.

Clouds and endless horizons.

Side of the road stop to unload digital camera card; first of the really big skies; the rockies in the distance behind.

BON AMI good friend December 31, Cimarron, New Mexico Chevron gas station newspaper box

Where we were when the Hertz Ford Focus rolled to 1000: New Mexico route 64, between Angel Fire and Eagles Nest. Altitude: very high.

BEN TROVATO well found December 30, Santa Fe, New Mexico San Francisco laybryinth center