On the way to breakfast in Hohenwald, Tennessee, I wondered about Mississippi. This morning in Tennessee was pleasant, actually cool. I had no idea the woods at night could be…

This month has been about two things… …1) surviving successive heatwaves, and 2) finding out what I can reasonably reach on foot. I have made some routes to and from…

For eight dollars a night, don’t expect more than simple pleasures. The kind of which are probably disappearing, as being too readily available to poor folk and people with kids…

Not in the Alps, but still woke up to this! It is very rural here, and the crossing into Switzerland across the Doubs River was remote and mysterious, with snow…