Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon South Bend, Indiana Room 5, car 2901 at the junction of Eastern and Central Time Outside the train with his family is a young boy I encountered about 4:00 a.m. with his head down in the toilet. He looks better now, smiling and happy to be on friendly ground. The train […]
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Cumberland Gap
Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon May 30th, toward evening Capitol Limited, traveling through the Cumberland Gap We passed Cumberland, West Virgina 15 minutes ago. The train stopped near the Union Rescue Mission. Nearby a man with a sleeveless t-shirt, a gut and a gray beard shrugged. Beside him a four year old boy with no shirt […]
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Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon Savannah Amtrak Station, waiting on the Silver Meteor which the stationmaster said will be 20 minutes late. After leaving the rental car to the tender mercies of the Alamo cleaners, I took a taxi from the airport to the Amtrak station. In the process I rode on early 20th century technology […]
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Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon Acela Lounge, Washington, D.C. Leg two of the trip begins in about two hours, the Capitol Limited to Chicago. This is, again, a sleeper. The first few hours in daylight will take us through Maryland, West Virginia and into Pennsylvania. As night comes, we’ll travel through western Pennsylvania and Ohio, reaching […]
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Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon Savannah Hilton Head Island International Airport The rental car has returned to its stable, now a “dirty car” in the lingo of the rental car world. The KIA was ok, but seemed a bit tinny to me. Might have just been the crank windows, separately locked doors and no cruise control. […]
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Beltane Waxing Dyan Moon Folkston, Georgia Gateway to the Okefenokee The Okefenokee Restaurant is the place to eat in Folkston. It has a country buffet. When I looked at the fried entrees, I asked for a menu. It said, “We encourage you to try the buffet.” This after a short menu of fried food. There […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon’ Hilton Head Island, S.C. Imagine the little guy on Fantasy Island. If he were here on Hilton Head Island instead, he would be running around saying, “The Sun! The Sun! The Sun!” Yes, on our last day here the sun has come out for the morning and it makes all the […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon Hilton Head Island, S.C. Cloudy again today. Yesterday afternoon, for a couple of hours, the sun shone. I just looked at the forecasts for Panama City. Thunderstorms followed by thunderstorms. It finally came to me yesterday why this weather looked so familiar. It looks like the pre-hurricane footage from the weather […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon Hilton Head Island, S.C. Kate and I went out to the Jazz Corner tonight. We listened to the Earl Williams Blues Band. They were excellent musicians. Earl played New Orleans most of his life and his patter, his stage presence made us laugh, drew us into his songs. He happened to […]
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Beltane Waning Flower Moon Westin, Hilton Head Island Some heat has returned. I only needed my gray great river energy zip up for the first half of the morning. The Coastal Discovery Center sits about a mile, maybe two from Port Royal Plantation. It tries to deal with the cultural and natural history of Hilton […]
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