Category: encounters
Late October brings thoughts of changing colors, falling leaves, crisp apples, pumpkins, ghosts, and cemeteries. I’ve never found cemeteries to be especially spooky. Famous ones such as Père Lachaise …
The dinosaur is on a road trip. He — diplodocus carnegii, that is — lived in was is now the US state of Wyoming somewhere between 161 to 145 …
Travel. It’s one of the things that unites us. So does connection to homeland. So does music. These are all things which play into the music and the ideas …
Reasons for travel include opportunities to meet new people, to make friends, to learn about differing ways people live, and to consider how that compares to your own life. …
How do you feel about museums? Perhaps you’re thinking: in and out, hit the highlights, that’s me and museums. You might be thinking, I could spend hours in a …
The travel press often gets criticized for whitewashing any unsavory aspects of tourism and travel, for making every place sound #perfect and #dreamy, seldom shining a light on the …
The Mississippi River is central to the geography of the United States. It is also central to natural and social history of the United States. The Mississippi River basin has …
Kerry Dexter
May 28, 2018
US travel, City or urban travel, encounters, food & drink, History, Kerry projects, Parks and preserves, Travel, travel stories, world music
The American southwest: a land of high desert, rushing river, Native tribes, cowboys, ranchers, city dwellers, deep canyons, quiet forest, and high mountains The American southwest is a landscape that …
You’ve been there: a neighborhood, a street, a whole town that immediately seems welcoming. There’s lots going on and you feel as though you’re invited to join in, even …
Brazil. The name might bring to mind the Amazon, the jungles of South America, exotic wildlife. You might think of a different sort of wild life, the revelers who dance through …
Twelve days of Christmas: you might be thinking that these are twelve days leading up to Christmas. The twelve days of Christmas, though, are the days between Christmas and …
Kerry Dexter
December 25, 2017
Travel, Asia travel, City or urban travel, encounters, Europe travel, History, Kerry projects, travel stories, US travel, world music
It is Christmas. Christmas in a year which has been, and continues to be, challenging, unsettling, disturbing in many ways. Whether Christmas is part of your faith story or …