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Eating Bad in the USA –
I am proud of the American people — my people. I am proud because my people have somehow managed to take food from the earth, process it into a plastic, and then turn around and sell it to me as food again.The USA has the worst cheap food on planet [...]
We are all, right now, looking another year in the face. Tonight, the entire world will reset its charts and add another tick onto the yearly clock: 2009 will turn into 2010.
All of the individually mandated cultural year counters have given way to the Gregorian one — by force, by guile, alpha-cultural trampling, or because [...]
I am standing in New Jersey on the brink of a new year — on the brink of 2010, on the brink of the 100th year anniversary of the publication of Harry A. Franck’s first book, A Vagabond Journey Around the World: the namesake of VagabondJourney.com.
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A mere 8 months into my travels [...]
Don’t wish me a Merry Christmas! It is politically incorrect! –
I come from a Christian home. My family celebrates Christmas. I celebrate Christmas, too.
Culture is nothing other than the onward play of doing what you have always done just because you have always done it. The connection between logic and culture is irrelevant — it [...]
Baby Petra applies for her first US passport, Wade and Chaya renew theirs –
10 years is a magical number for a USA traveler.
No, this has nothing to do with the Pythagoreans or any other classical cult, but because of the fact that a US passport has a 10 year life time.
My passport has now croaked.
I [...]
Frito Pies in Santa Fe –
“Whatever you do, after eating this, do not move out of your seat for at least a half hour,” a friend warned.
I did not listen to my friend — “Don’t worry, I have a stomach of steel” — and I paid the price. As soon as I finished my meal, [...]
A travelogue entry about border jumpers and Chaya’s experience doing relief work on the US/ Mexico frontier –
On that side is Naco, Mexico, on this side is is me, America. There is a fence between us.
“How long is that fence?” I asked my friend, Al, who traveled be RV for 15 years after retirement before [...]
Petroglyphs in Arizona, Archaeology field work in Tonto Forest –
“I have a Petro over here!” exclaimed an archaeologist in the Tonto Forest of Arizona.
We were walking out our transects through the Pinyon Juniper shrub trees on top of a highly elevated mesa in the forest. Prehistoric sites were reveling themselves out of the ground nearly [...]
I was surprised.
Like many other travelers before me I was surprise by how cold New Mexico is in the winter. I was warned forthwith — two long term travelers previously told me that New Mexico was the coldest place that they ever traveled in. But I was undaunted:
I am from Upstate New York near Lake [...]
Jerome, Arizona Wicked City Amidst Good Hospitality –
The mining town of Jerome very nearly became the state capital of Arizona. And then it fell off of a mountain.
Well, half the town did anyway. The rubble was then made into a parking lot, still in use today. But having half the town fall off of a [...]
Traveling Back East –
Americans say, “Traveling out west,” to indicate that your direction of locomotion is westerly, and “Going back east,” to indicate travel in the opposite direction.
“Traveling out west, going back east.”
It is automatic to use these terms.
“I am from back east.”
“I was out west.”
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Arizona, Southwest USA, North America
Early December, 2009
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Jerome Arizona Copper Mines –
It was a flash of an orangish metallic vein in a rock outcrop near Cleopatra Hill that transformed a mountain top into a wide open, gaping, billion dollar hole in the earth. As the old story goes: a 19th century white guy just happens to notice an Indian trail one day [...]
Archaeology in Arizona Project Completed –
My work here is done. The archaeology project in the Tonto forest has come to completion. The company that I have been working with for the past 11 weeks has cut its crew loose: “There is no more work for you, go on your merry way.”
The message is clear: I [...]
Petra’s Life Saved for the First Time –
Petra had to have her life saved for the first time this morning. Her mother, Chaya, was the saver.
Kicking, squealing, farting all through the very early morning, Petra wanted to get up and play. It was around 5AM and mom and dad wanted to sleep a little more. [...]
Homemade RV converted from UHAUL moving truck –
After doing a preliminary search around Arizona for a cheap RV for my family to travel around the western USA in, I gave it up. Recreational Vehicles, as in motor homes, seem a little ill suited for what I want them for — back country living/ travel– in [...]
Perception of an Infant and Traveling –
I am now watching my three month old baby, Petra, adjust to the traveling life. She stays in a hotel in Payson, Arizona for three nights a week and then travels to another location for the remaining four days — sometimes Phoenix, sometimes Flagstaff, sometimes Sedona, sometimes Jerome. She [...]
Apparently, CBS News Phoenix wanted to run a segment on how to eat roadkill.
Apparently, they wanted me to do the deed.
Wade – I am a reporter for CBS 5 News in Phoenix.
I recently found your blog / website – and was fascinated by your explanation of utilizing road kill for free food. Where are you [...]
Need to leave USA for Healthcare –
I am traveling with an infant. There are now many more factors in my travels. Many more “what ifs . . .”
“What if your baby gets sick?”
I can see the questions coming in. I asked this question myself. What will I do when Petra gets sick? Unless she is [...]
This entry about the trust parameters that should be placed around Global Positioning Systems — GPS — technology is the first part of a Vagabond Journey series on navigation.
The hand held GPS unit is perhaps one of the greatest gifts that civilization has ever given to the back country wanderer. With properly knowledge of its [...]
The Working Ugly –
It has been well documented that the writer V.S. Naipaul is quite proud of the fact that he has never work a day in his life outside of writing. This fact is written in the author bios of his books, successful writers tout him for it, those with day jobs snarl. He [...]
