For a long time now, I’ve had a special place in my heart for Florida. I spent summers there as a kid, tearing around on a bike near the mangroves, coming alive in the steamy green heat. It’s a nostalgic place for me, and like most nostalgic places, it strikes me as beautiful. But. Florida’s […]
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Glimpses of Goodness on the Road
This weekend, I drove all the way across Virginia, west to east. I drove alone, on Route 460, a narrow ribbon of country road that sometimes seems to roll on forever — out of the mountains and into the hills, past sleepy farms where cows graze, their coats gleaming like black satin. Since I was […]
Savannah, Georgia: Abstractions
I spent last weekend happily shambling around the green-shadowed streets of one of my favorite cities: Savannah, Georgia. I ate a shameful amount of seafood. I slept in a ridiculously fluffy four-poster bed. And I took photos. A lot of photos. Today, I finally got a chance to go through some of those photos. And in […]
A Colorful Little Slice of Charleston, SC
I have to tell you that if I had to give someone a valentine right about now, it would be the city of Charleston, South Carolina. This past weekend, Thomas and I stopped there for the night on our way home from Florida. We spontaneously decided to book a suite at a (ridiculously charming) bed […]