Tag: Connections

photographs and journal notes and other stuff of memories

On By Gary ParkersonIn Connections, Inspiration, Photography, Travel2 Comments

I hiked desert mountains of the U.S. Southwest with a retired Boston firefighter, whom I met while pedaling a remote Nevada road. The incongruity of his lush New England accent amid those vast arid settings was reminder that we are all travelers, each on our own peculiar journey through time. Among the surprises of that …

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trace encounters – why we wander

On By Gary ParkersonIn Bicycling, Inspiration, Travel1 Comment

“Y’all okay?” It was a bright, postcard-worthy Saturday afternoon on the Natchez Trace Parkway. A steady north breeze pushed Southern Mississippi’s oppressive humidity back to the Gulf of Mexico, to the relief of all but the few Nashville-bound bicycling tourists for whom it served a challenging headwind. “Need me to come down there?” His voice, …

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