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Even the people resisting the transition know they’re no longer fighting for their way of life. They’re just fighting to keep the thinnest resemblance of what they’ve always known around until they leave this world. They’re fighting to keep from having to watch the death of everything they know. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" title="All the Pretty Beaches"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/stgeorgeisland_1.jpg" alt="All the Pretty Beaches" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" class="u-url" title="All the Pretty Beaches">All the Pretty Beaches</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-26T22:43:23">May <span>26, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">St. George Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.65981806259071"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.87047444700387"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + St. George is just off the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida, only about 7 hours from where I live. There are better places if you're looking to dive or snorkel. Ditto if it's nightlife you're after. But if you're looking for a seemingly endless amount of gorgeous white sand beaches you'll share with only a few migratory birds, St. George is the place to be. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/considertheoyster.jpg" alt="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" class="u-url" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster">Consider the Apalachicola Oyster</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-22T19:43:23">May <span>22, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Apalachicola</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.72867205648089"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.98378973124662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + If you know the name Apalachicola at all it’s likely because of its eponymous oysters. Very few things, let alone culinary things, are as attached to place as oysters. In fact, once you get beyond the Rockefeller, ordering “oysters” is akin to walking in a bar and ordering “a beer.” But unlike beer, oysters don’t have brands, they have places — Pemaquid, Wellfleet, Blue Point, Apalachicola. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" title="Things Behind the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/tucsonblur.jpg" alt="Things Behind the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" class="u-url" title="Things Behind the Sun">Things Behind the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-05-20T22:47:00">May <span>20, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95674257719642"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37592612645985"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + My grandparents left the home they lived in for 60 years today. I don't know how much of my life was spent in that house, probably well over a year if you added up all the holidays and family gatherings. And now I'm thousands of miles away and someone is clearing out the house. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/foodcart1.jpg" alt="Street Food in Athens Georgia" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" class="u-url" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia">Street Food in Athens Georgia</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-03-31T21:56:00">March <span>31, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.959861666904274"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37601195713451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Cheap food, made fresh, in front of you. Served hot, wrapped in newspaper. Street food is the people's food, it removes the mystery of the kitchen, lays the process bare. It's also the staple diet of people around the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" title="We Used to Wait For It"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/losangeles11h.jpg" alt="We Used to Wait For It" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" class="u-url" title="We Used to Wait For It">We Used to Wait For It</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-03-28T21:50:00">March <span>28, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.04477171337467"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.25204621066614"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + When we first came here, there was nothing. Downtown Los Angeles was an empty husk of a place fifteen years ago. Now it's reborn, alive and kicking. Yet there is something in the older buildings, something in the old walls, something lost in the bricks, something in the concrete, the marble. Something you don’t find anymore. Something we need to find again. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/world-outside" title="The World Outside"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/snowh.jpg" alt="The World Outside" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/world-outside" class="u-url" title="The World Outside">The World Outside</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-26T11:56:00">January <span>26, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.96016249314553"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.4028816107045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world outside the house is blanketed in snow, a monochrome of white interrupted only by the dark, wet trunks of trees, the red brick of chimneys, the occasional green of shrubs poking through. The roads are unbroken expanses of smooth white, no one is out yet, no footprints track their way through the snowy sidewalk. The world outside is the same as it was last night, before the snow began, and yet, it feels totally different. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" title="Charleston A-Z"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/charleston-h_1.jpg" alt="Charleston A-Z" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" class="u-url" title="Charleston A-Z">Charleston A-Z</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-18T15:29:00">January <span>18, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.78595765272612"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.9366307147337"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Charleston alphabetically. For example, <strong>Q</strong> is for quiet, Charleston has a lot of it. Just head down to the Battery area, walk through the park and starting walking down the side streets. Take one of the many alleys and walkways that weave between the massive, stately houses. Get lost. It doesn't take much to find a quiet place of your own. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/lodorecanyonh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River">Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-08-02T09:00:00">August <span>2, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.457462390627"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-109.2584323730928"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This is the only real way to see Dinosaur National Monument — you must journey down the river. There are two major rivers running through Dinosaur, the Yampa, which carves through Yampa Canyon, and the Green, which cuts through Lodore. <a href="http://www.adventureboundusa.com/" title="Adventure Bound Rafting">Adventure Bound Rafting</a> runs some of the best whitewater rafting trips in Colorado and I was lucky enough to go down the Green River with them, through the majestic Lodore Canyon. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/dinosaurh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park">Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-28T17:00:00">July <span>28, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.52063402652926"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-108.99388073317648"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Dinosaur National Monument was poorly named. The best parts of it are not the fossils in the quarry (which is closed for 2010 anyway) but the canyon country — some of the best, most remote canyon country you'll find in this part of the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/yellowstoneh.jpg" alt="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" class="u-url" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone">The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-25T14:00:00">July <span>25, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Yellowstone National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="44.46180292448713"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.82196979172171"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There is wilderness in Yellowstone, even if it's just inches from the boardwalks that transport thousands around the geothermal pools. It may not be wilderness on a grand scale — the sweeping mountain peaks or wild rivers of other parks — but in some ways that makes it more enticing. As one Ranger told me, Yellowstone isn't about the big picture, the grand scenery, it's about the tiny details within each pool. To really see Yellowstone, he said, you have to take your time, move slowly and look closely. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/grandtetonsh.jpg" alt="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" class="u-url" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons">Backpacking in the Grand Tetons</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-22T17:00:00">July <span>22, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Grand Teton National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.79315431684632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.79651831037907"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hiking into the wilderness empties your mind. You fall into the silence of the mountains and you can relax in a way that's very difficult to do in the midst of civilization. The white noise that surrounds us in our everyday lives, that noise we don't even notice as it adds thin layers of stress that build up over days, weeks, years, does not seem capable of following us into the mountains. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/greatsanddunesh_4.jpg" alt="Great Sand Dunes National Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" class="u-url" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park">Great Sand Dunes National Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-17T09:00:00">July <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Sand Dunes National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.72673718028319"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-105.55097578487117"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Something about the desert inspires me to get up early and watch the sunrise. The cool mornings seem worth getting up for out here in the high plains of Colorado, especially when there's the chance to watch the sunrise from the largest sand dunes in North America, here in Great Sand Dune National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" title="Comanche National Grasslands"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/comanchenationalgrasslands.jpg" alt="Comanche National Grasslands" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" class="u-url" title="Comanche National Grasslands">Comanche National Grasslands</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-16T13:00:00">July <span>16, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Comanche National Grasslands</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.14748995999048"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-103.0095720147769"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + To say the Comanche National Grasslands is off the grid would be an understatement. With the exception of Highway 50 in Nevada, I've never driven through such isolation and vast openness anywhere in the world. And it's easy to get lost. There are no signs, no road names even, just dirt paths crisscrossing a wide, perfectly flat expanses of grass. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/palodura.jpg" alt="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" class="u-url" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks">Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-15T10:00:00">July <span>15, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Amarillo</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.18854030957816"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-101.9194793559329"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There are many reasons, but here's the one I currently consider most important: National Parks never close. Take Palo Dura State park outside of Amarillo, Texas. Were it a National Park, I would be there right now. But it's not, it's a state park and so I'm sitting in a hotel room in Amarillo because everyone knows nature closes at 10PM. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/billythekidmuseum.jpg" alt="The Legend of Billy the Kid" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" class="u-url" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid">The Legend of Billy the Kid</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-11T18:00:00">July <span>11, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Hico</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="31.981920692582488"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-98.03087709969479"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + History rarely offers neat, tidy stories. But the messier, more confusing and more controversial the story becomes, the more it works its way into our imaginations. The legend of Billy the Kid is like that of Amelia Earhart or D.B. Cooper — the less we know for sure, the more compelling the story becomes. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" title="The Dixie Drug Store"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/nopharmacymuseum01.jpg" alt="The Dixie Drug Store" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" class="u-url" title="The Dixie Drug Store">The Dixie Drug Store</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-08T17:00:00">July <span>8, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">New Orleans</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Louisiana</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.955903613807074"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-90.06511865792525"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + New Orleans is it's own world. So much so that's it's impossible to put your finger on what it is that makes it different. New Orleans is a place where the line between consensus reality and private dream seems to have never fully developed. And a wonderful world it is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" title="Begin the Begin"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/gulf_port_beach.jpg" alt="Begin the Begin" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" class="u-url" title="Begin the Begin">Begin the Begin</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-05T22:00:00">July <span>5, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Gulf Port</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Mississippi</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.380400296597216"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-89.03081058216594"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's travel time again. This time I'm driving my 1969 Ford truck out west, to Texas, Colorado, Utah and more — a road trip around the western United States. The first stop is Gulf Port, Mississippi. It's hard to believe, sitting here on the deserted beaches of Gulf Shore, watching the sun break through the ominous clouds, but soon this beauty will be gone. The BP oil spill is somewhere out there, blown slowly ashore by the storm hovering over us, waiting to drown the beaches in crude. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/launionsubway.jpg" alt="Los Angeles, I'm Yours" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" class="u-url" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours">Los Angeles, I’m Yours</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-05-17T16:43:18">May <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.05582387432624"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.23588250455148"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Los Angeles is all about the car. Shiny, air-conditioned comfort, gliding you soundlessly from one place to another without the need to interact with anything in between. But I have discovered that if you abandon the car for the subway and your own two feet, the illusion that L.A. is just a model train set world — tiny, plastic and devoid of any ground beneath the ground — fades and you find yourself, for a time, in a real city. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/04/death-valley" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/deathvalley.jpg" alt="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/04/death-valley" class="u-url" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley">(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-04-24T11:45:59">April <span>24, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Death Valley</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="36.42090257717807"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-116.80985925955854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sometimes you ignore the places close to home because, well, there's always next weekend. Which is why I never made it Death Valley in the twenty-five years I lived in California. It took being all the way across the country to get me out to Death Valley. Which might explain why I actually got up before dawn just to watch the sunrise at Zabriskie Point. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/okeefenokee.jpg" alt="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" class="u-url" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science">So Far, I Have Not Found The Science</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-03-13T12:50:48">March <span>13, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Okefenokee Swamp</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.913415518451895"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.1832228795993"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A canoe trip through the Okefenokee Swamp down in the southern most corner of Georgia. Paddling the strange reddish and incredibly still waters. Begging alligators, aching muscles and the kindly folks of Stintson's Barbecue all getting their due. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/traveltheworld.jpg" alt="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" class="u-url" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World">How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-05-03T19:39:16">May <span>3, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95763520280544"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40871809752001"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + How do you make the leap from cubicle daydreams to life on to the road? You want to travel the world, but, like me, you have a million excuses stopping you. How do overcome the inertia that keeps you trapped in a life that isn't what you want it to be? Here's a few practical tips and how tos designed to motivate you to get off your butt and travel the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" title="No Strangers on a Train"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/strangersonatrain.jpg" alt="No Strangers on a Train" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" class="u-url" title="No Strangers on a Train">No Strangers on a Train</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-04-13T19:36:13">April <span>13, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95818694160937"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40824602873336"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We mythologize trains because they harken back to an age of community travel, a real, tangible community of travelers, not just backpackers, but people from all walks of life, people traveling near and far together in a shared space that isn't locked down like an airplane and isn't isolated like a car; it's a shared travel experience and there are precious few of those left in our world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/codexofbunnies.jpg" alt="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" class="u-url" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies">Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-12-09T18:18:33">December <span>9, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Birmingham</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Alabama</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.521441993672646"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.81079982502803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A few pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks make a rare trip outside Italy, to Birmingham, AL, of all places. But the Birmingham Museum of Art is home to far more alarming works of art, works which depict the eventual, inevitable, bunny takeover, after which all the elements of our reality will be replaced by bunnies. Seriously. 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post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Smoky Mountains</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Tennessee</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.680446234758236"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.65024565485956"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Pigeon Forge is Myrtle Beach in the mountains. Redneck weddings cascade straight out of the chapel and into the mini golf reception area. Pigeon Forge is everything that's wrong with America. But we aren't here for Pigeon Forge, it just happens to have a free condo we're staying in. We're here for the mountains. Smoky Mountain National Park is just a few miles up the road. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/07/rope-swings-and-river-floats" title="Rope Swings and River Floats"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/chestateeriver.jpg" alt="Rope Swings and River Floats" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/07/rope-swings-and-river-floats" class="u-url" title="Rope Swings and River Floats">Rope Swings and River Floats</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-07-27T20:14:49">July <span>27, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Mountain Cabin</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.53463159921271"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.90280245566663"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Two weekends ago we went up to the mountains, just outside of Dahlonega GA, and floated the Chestatee River using inner tubes, various pool toys and one super-cool inflatable seahorse. Unfortunately, proving one of my travel mottos -- you can never go back -- a return trip proved disastrous. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/06/love-with-a-view-vagabonds-responsibilty-living-we" title="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/wrong.jpg" alt="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/06/love-with-a-view-vagabonds-responsibilty-living-we" class="u-url" title="In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well">In Love With a View: Vagabonds, Responsibilty and Living Well</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-06-07T14:45:29">June <span>7, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.944877470043906"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.38860689432926"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Why all the vitriol about a seemingly innocuous concept -- that traveling doesn't have to cost a lot of money, isn't all that difficult and hey, you can even go right now? People like us, who feel tied down by responsibility, find the suggestion that we actually aren't tied down patronizing and yes, elitist. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/11/fall" title="Fall"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/fall.jpg" alt="Fall" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/11/fall" class="u-url" title="Fall">Fall</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-11-14T02:25:17">November <span>14, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.9448641194789"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.38856934340312"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The trees are in full technicolor swing. The land is slowly dying, and not just because it's Fall, we're also in the middle of a prolonged drought and this year the leaves are opting for a James Dean-style, leave-a-good-looking-corpse exit. If you're a leaf and you've got to go, do it with class. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/07/other-ocean" title="On The Other Ocean"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/sailing.jpg" alt="On The Other Ocean" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/07/other-ocean" class="u-url" title="On The Other Ocean">On The Other Ocean</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-07-23T11:24:44">July <span>23, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Catalina Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.46191438592164"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.52130172987002"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Consider what would happen if your house were tilted 30 degrees to the left, how this would complicate ordinary activities -- like say walking. Now throw in a bouncing motion that lifts the floor five or six feet up and down in a seesaw-like motion on a perpendicular axis to the 30 degree tilt -- things become more like riding a seesaw that's attached to a merry-go-round which is missing a few bolts. That's sailing. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/06/being-there" title="Being There"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/myrtlebeachcrap.jpg" alt="Being There" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/06/being-there" class="u-url" title="Being There">Being There</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-06-17T02:18:54">June <span>17, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Myrtle Beach Airport</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.683925130931456"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-78.92835615966725"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Myrtle Beach does not exist. Nearly everything in Myrtle Beach is a paltry derivative of some original form. For instance, most of the country has golf courses, in Myrtle Beach there are endless rows of putt-putt courses, where most towns attempt to draw in big name musical acts for their tourist venues, Myrtle Beach is content with impersonators. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/06/sailing-through" title="Sailing Through"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/charlestonships.jpg" alt="Sailing Through" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/06/sailing-through" class="u-url" title="Sailing Through">Sailing Through</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-06-15T00:15:43">June <span>15, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.835570335240995"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.82256172976372"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The rumors are true. I moved back to the south; Athens GA to be exact. But I hate staying in one place for too long, so after a month or two in Athens I headed up to Charleston to visit a friend. The south is curious place. If you've never been here I couldn't hope to explain it, but it's not so much a place as an approach. A way of getting somewhere more than anywhere specific. Perhaps even a wrong turn.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/03/goodbye-mother-and-cove" title="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/lacloud.jpg" alt="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/03/goodbye-mother-and-cove" class="u-url" title="Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove">Goodbye to the Mother and the Cove</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-03-01T11:15:10">March <span>1, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.040907225218874"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.47207783003557"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's strange how you can plan something, go through all the motions of making it happen without ever really understanding what you're doing. I've been doing this for the better part of three years now. I realized recently that I have no real idea how I came to be here.
+ + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/02/everything-all-time" title="Everything All The Time"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/end.jpg" alt="Everything All The Time" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/02/everything-all-time" class="u-url" title="Everything All The Time">Everything All The Time</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-02-03T11:14:13">February <span>3, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97530686407635"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42890499373785"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + I don't know if I'm just overly paranoid but when I call up memories in the dark hours of the Beaujolais-soaked pre-dawn, I see a collection of mildly amusing, occasionally painful series of embarrassments, misunderstandings and general wrong-place, wrong-time sort of moments. Which isn't to imply that my life is a British sitcom, just that I'm not in a hurry to re-live any of it. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2007/01/sun-came-no-conclusions" title="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/illuminatus.jpg" alt="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2007/01/sun-came-no-conclusions" class="u-url" title="The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions">The Sun Came Up With No Conclusions</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2007-01-11T18:11:30">January <span>11, 2007</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97517340607632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42887280722941"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + "And so it is that we, as men, do not exist until we do; and then it is that we play with our world of existent things, and order and disorder them, and so it shall be that non-existence shall take us back from existence and that nameless spirituality shall return to Void, like a tired child home from a very wild circus." -- Robert Anton Wilson and Kerry Thornley. Good luck and Godspeed Mr. Wilson. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/12/give-it-or-turnit-loose" title="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/jamesbrown.jpg" alt="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/12/give-it-or-turnit-loose" class="u-url" title="Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose">Give It Up Or Turnit A Loose</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-12-25T19:10:49">December <span>25, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.97519564909091"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42893718024602"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Traveling soul. Soul is not something out there or in you, it's the place where you meet the out there; something very similar to what I think James Brown meant — a mixture of the secular and the spiritual, the profane and the sublime. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2006/06/homeward" title="Homeward"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/trappedmoth.jpg" alt="Homeward" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2006/06/homeward" class="u-url" title="Homeward">Homeward</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2006-06-09T11:05:34">June <span>9, 2006</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.975160060264834"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.42903373977045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + New York, New York. John F Kennedy airport 1 am date unknown, sleepy looking customs guard stamps a passport without hardly looking at, without even checking to see where I had been. A light drizzle is falling outside and the subways extension to the terminal never looked so good. What is it like to be home? I don't know, I'll tell you when I get there. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go" title="Twenty More Minutes to Go"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/heretogo.jpg" alt="Twenty More Minutes to Go" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/twenty-more-minutes-go" class="u-url" title="Twenty More Minutes to Go">Twenty More Minutes to Go</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-20T18:19:10">October <span>20, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.63332664528318"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90302036551485"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Well it's the night before I leave. I just got done pacing around the driveway of my parents house smoking cigarettes… nervously? Excitedly? Restlessly? A bit of all of those I suppose. I walk across the street, over the drainage ditch and head for the swing set at the park. Right now I'm swinging in a park in Costa Mesa California. Tomorrow France. Weird. [Photo to the right, <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/scarin/53961434/">via Flickr</a>] + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/tips-and-resources" title="Travel Tips and Resources"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/travelgear.jpg" alt="Travel Tips and Resources" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/tips-and-resources" class="u-url" title="Travel Tips and Resources">Travel Tips and Resources</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-19T18:14:56">October <span>19, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.632093907236325"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90123937872937"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + An overview of the things you might want to bring on an extended trip, as well as some tips and recommendations on things like visas and vaccinations. The part that was most helpful for me was learning what I <em>didn't</em> need to bring — as it turns out, quite a bit. Nowadays my pack is much smaller and lighter. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/10/new-luddites" title="The New Luddites"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/books.jpg" alt="The New Luddites" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/10/new-luddites" class="u-url" title="The New Luddites">The New Luddites</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-10-08T18:17:45">October <span>8, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Newport Beach</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.632147504909575"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-117.90106771735248"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + An older, non-travel piece about Google's plan to scan all the world's books and Luddite-like response from many authors. Let's see, someone wants to make your book easier to find, searchable and indexable and you're opposed to it? You're a fucking idiot. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove" title="One Nation Under a Groove"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/ipod.jpg" alt="One Nation Under a Groove" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/03/one-nation-under-groove" class="u-url" title="One Nation Under a Groove">One Nation Under a Groove</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-03-25T18:12:59">March <span>25, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.32254049078504"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62804030361058"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The sky is falling! The iPod! It's ruining our culture! Or, uh, maybe it's just like the Walkman, but better. And since, so far as I can tell, the world did not collapse with the introduction of the Walkman and headphones, it probably isn't going to fall apart just because the storage format for our music has changed. [Photo to the right via <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/rogpool/2960735485/">Flickr</a>] + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2005/02/farewell-mr-hunter-s-thompson" title="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2008/thompson.jpg" alt="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2005/02/farewell-mr-hunter-s-thompson" class="u-url" title="Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson">Farewell Mr. Hunter S Thompson</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2005-02-24T18:11:10">February <span>24, 2005</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Northampton</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Massachusetts</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="42.322635681187286"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-72.62795447292216"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hunter S. Thompson departs on a journey to the western lands. 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Even the people resisting the transition know they’re no longer fighting for their way of life. They’re just fighting to keep the thinnest resemblance of what they’ve always known around until they leave this world. They’re fighting to keep from having to watch the death of everything they know. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" title="All the Pretty Beaches"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/stgeorgeisland_1.jpg" alt="All the Pretty Beaches" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/all-the-pretty-beaches" class="u-url" title="All the Pretty Beaches">All the Pretty Beaches</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-26T22:43:23">May <span>26, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">St. George Island</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.65981806259071"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.87047444700387"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + St. George is just off the Gulf Coast of northwest Florida, only about 7 hours from where I live. There are better places if you're looking to dive or snorkel. Ditto if it's nightlife you're after. But if you're looking for a seemingly endless amount of gorgeous white sand beaches you'll share with only a few migratory birds, St. George is the place to be. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2013/considertheoyster.jpg" alt="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2013/05/consider-the-apalachicola-oyster" class="u-url" title="Consider the Apalachicola Oyster">Consider the Apalachicola Oyster</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2013-05-22T19:43:23">May <span>22, 2013</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Apalachicola</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Florida</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.72867205648089"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-84.98378973124662"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + If you know the name Apalachicola at all it’s likely because of its eponymous oysters. Very few things, let alone culinary things, are as attached to place as oysters. In fact, once you get beyond the Rockefeller, ordering “oysters” is akin to walking in a bar and ordering “a beer.” But unlike beer, oysters don’t have brands, they have places — Pemaquid, Wellfleet, Blue Point, Apalachicola. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" title="Things Behind the Sun"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/tucsonblur.jpg" alt="Things Behind the Sun" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/05/things-behind-sun" class="u-url" title="Things Behind the Sun">Things Behind the Sun</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-05-20T22:47:00">May <span>20, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95674257719642"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37592612645985"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + My grandparents left the home they lived in for 60 years today. I don't know how much of my life was spent in that house, probably well over a year if you added up all the holidays and family gatherings. And now I'm thousands of miles away and someone is clearing out the house. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2012/foodcart1.jpg" alt="Street Food in Athens Georgia" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2012/03/street-food-athens-georgia" class="u-url" title="Street Food in Athens Georgia">Street Food in Athens Georgia</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2012-03-31T21:56:00">March <span>31, 2012</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.959861666904274"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.37601195713451"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Cheap food, made fresh, in front of you. Served hot, wrapped in newspaper. Street food is the people's food, it removes the mystery of the kitchen, lays the process bare. It's also the staple diet of people around the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" title="We Used to Wait For It"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/losangeles11h.jpg" alt="We Used to Wait For It" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/03/we-used-wait-it" class="u-url" title="We Used to Wait For It">We Used to Wait For It</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-03-28T21:50:00">March <span>28, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.04477171337467"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.25204621066614"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + When we first came here, there was nothing. Downtown Los Angeles was an empty husk of a place fifteen years ago. Now it's reborn, alive and kicking. Yet there is something in the older buildings, something in the old walls, something lost in the bricks, something in the concrete, the marble. Something you don’t find anymore. Something we need to find again. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/world-outside" title="The World Outside"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/snowh.jpg" alt="The World Outside" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/world-outside" class="u-url" title="The World Outside">The World Outside</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-26T11:56:00">January <span>26, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.96016249314553"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.4028816107045"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + The world outside the house is blanketed in snow, a monochrome of white interrupted only by the dark, wet trunks of trees, the red brick of chimneys, the occasional green of shrubs poking through. The roads are unbroken expanses of smooth white, no one is out yet, no footprints track their way through the snowy sidewalk. The world outside is the same as it was last night, before the snow began, and yet, it feels totally different. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" title="Charleston A-Z"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2011/charleston-h_1.jpg" alt="Charleston A-Z" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2011/01/charleston-a-z" class="u-url" title="Charleston A-Z">Charleston A-Z</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2011-01-18T15:29:00">January <span>18, 2011</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Charleston</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">South Carolina</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="32.78595765272612"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-79.9366307147337"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Charleston alphabetically. For example, <strong>Q</strong> is for quiet, Charleston has a lot of it. Just head down to the Battery area, walk through the park and starting walking down the side streets. Take one of the many alleys and walkways that weave between the massive, stately houses. Get lost. It doesn't take much to find a quiet place of your own. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/lodorecanyonh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/08/dinosaur-national-monument-part-two-down-river" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River">Dinosaur National Monument, Part Two: Down the River</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-08-02T09:00:00">August <span>2, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.457462390627"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-109.2584323730928"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + This is the only real way to see Dinosaur National Monument — you must journey down the river. There are two major rivers running through Dinosaur, the Yampa, which carves through Yampa Canyon, and the Green, which cuts through Lodore. <a href="http://www.adventureboundusa.com/" title="Adventure Bound Rafting">Adventure Bound Rafting</a> runs some of the best whitewater rafting trips in Colorado and I was lucky enough to go down the Green River with them, through the majestic Lodore Canyon. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/dinosaurh.jpg" alt="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dinosaur-national-monument-part-one-echo-park" class="u-url" title="Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park">Dinosaur National Monument, Part One: Echo Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-28T17:00:00">July <span>28, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Dinosaur National Monument</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="40.52063402652926"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-108.99388073317648"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Dinosaur National Monument was poorly named. The best parts of it are not the fossils in the quarry (which is closed for 2010 anyway) but the canyon country — some of the best, most remote canyon country you'll find in this part of the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/yellowstoneh.jpg" alt="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/endless-crowds-yellowstone" class="u-url" title="The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone">The Endless Crowds of Yellowstone</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-25T14:00:00">July <span>25, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Yellowstone National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="44.46180292448713"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.82196979172171"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There is wilderness in Yellowstone, even if it's just inches from the boardwalks that transport thousands around the geothermal pools. It may not be wilderness on a grand scale — the sweeping mountain peaks or wild rivers of other parks — but in some ways that makes it more enticing. As one Ranger told me, Yellowstone isn't about the big picture, the grand scenery, it's about the tiny details within each pool. To really see Yellowstone, he said, you have to take your time, move slowly and look closely. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/grandtetonsh.jpg" alt="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/backpacking-grand-tetons" class="u-url" title="Backpacking in the Grand Tetons">Backpacking in the Grand Tetons</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-22T17:00:00">July <span>22, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Grand Teton National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Wyoming</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="43.79315431684632"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-110.79651831037907"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Hiking into the wilderness empties your mind. You fall into the silence of the mountains and you can relax in a way that's very difficult to do in the midst of civilization. The white noise that surrounds us in our everyday lives, that noise we don't even notice as it adds thin layers of stress that build up over days, weeks, years, does not seem capable of following us into the mountains. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/greatsanddunesh_4.jpg" alt="Great Sand Dunes National Park" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/great-sand-dunes-national-park" class="u-url" title="Great Sand Dunes National Park">Great Sand Dunes National Park</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-17T09:00:00">July <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Great Sand Dunes National Park</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.72673718028319"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-105.55097578487117"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Something about the desert inspires me to get up early and watch the sunrise. The cool mornings seem worth getting up for out here in the high plains of Colorado, especially when there's the chance to watch the sunrise from the largest sand dunes in North America, here in Great Sand Dune National Park. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" title="Comanche National Grasslands"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/comanchenationalgrasslands.jpg" alt="Comanche National Grasslands" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/comanche-national-grasslands" class="u-url" title="Comanche National Grasslands">Comanche National Grasslands</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-16T13:00:00">July <span>16, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Comanche National Grasslands</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Colorado</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="37.14748995999048"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-103.0095720147769"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + To say the Comanche National Grasslands is off the grid would be an understatement. With the exception of Highway 50 in Nevada, I've never driven through such isolation and vast openness anywhere in the world. And it's easy to get lost. There are no signs, no road names even, just dirt paths crisscrossing a wide, perfectly flat expanses of grass. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/palodura.jpg" alt="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/why-national-parks-are-better-state-parks" class="u-url" title="Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks">Why National Parks Are Better Than State Parks</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-15T10:00:00">July <span>15, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Amarillo</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="35.18854030957816"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-101.9194793559329"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + There are many reasons, but here's the one I currently consider most important: National Parks never close. Take Palo Dura State park outside of Amarillo, Texas. Were it a National Park, I would be there right now. But it's not, it's a state park and so I'm sitting in a hotel room in Amarillo because everyone knows nature closes at 10PM. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/billythekidmuseum.jpg" alt="The Legend of Billy the Kid" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/legend-billy-the-kid" class="u-url" title="The Legend of Billy the Kid">The Legend of Billy the Kid</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-11T18:00:00">July <span>11, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Hico</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Texas</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="31.981920692582488"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-98.03087709969479"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + History rarely offers neat, tidy stories. But the messier, more confusing and more controversial the story becomes, the more it works its way into our imaginations. The legend of Billy the Kid is like that of Amelia Earhart or D.B. Cooper — the less we know for sure, the more compelling the story becomes. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" title="The Dixie Drug Store"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/nopharmacymuseum01.jpg" alt="The Dixie Drug Store" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/dixie-drug-store" class="u-url" title="The Dixie Drug Store">The Dixie Drug Store</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-08T17:00:00">July <span>8, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">New Orleans</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Louisiana</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="29.955903613807074"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-90.06511865792525"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + New Orleans is it's own world. So much so that's it's impossible to put your finger on what it is that makes it different. New Orleans is a place where the line between consensus reality and private dream seems to have never fully developed. And a wonderful world it is. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" title="Begin the Begin"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/gulf_port_beach.jpg" alt="Begin the Begin" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/07/begin-the-begin" class="u-url" title="Begin the Begin">Begin the Begin</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-07-05T22:00:00">July <span>5, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Gulf Port</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Mississippi</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.380400296597216"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-89.03081058216594"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + It's travel time again. This time I'm driving my 1969 Ford truck out west, to Texas, Colorado, Utah and more — a road trip around the western United States. The first stop is Gulf Port, Mississippi. It's hard to believe, sitting here on the deserted beaches of Gulf Shore, watching the sun break through the ominous clouds, but soon this beauty will be gone. The BP oil spill is somewhere out there, blown slowly ashore by the storm hovering over us, waiting to drown the beaches in crude. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/launionsubway.jpg" alt="Los Angeles, I'm Yours" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/05/los-angeles-im-yours" class="u-url" title="Los Angeles, I'm Yours">Los Angeles, I’m Yours</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-05-17T16:43:18">May <span>17, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Los Angeles</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="34.05582387432624"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-118.23588250455148"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Los Angeles is all about the car. Shiny, air-conditioned comfort, gliding you soundlessly from one place to another without the need to interact with anything in between. But I have discovered that if you abandon the car for the subway and your own two feet, the illusion that L.A. is just a model train set world — tiny, plastic and devoid of any ground beneath the ground — fades and you find yourself, for a time, in a real city. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/04/death-valley" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/deathvalley.jpg" alt="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/04/death-valley" class="u-url" title="(There'll Be) Peace in the Valley">(There’ll Be) Peace in the Valley</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-04-24T11:45:59">April <span>24, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Death Valley</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">California</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="36.42090257717807"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-116.80985925955854"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + Sometimes you ignore the places close to home because, well, there's always next weekend. Which is why I never made it Death Valley in the twenty-five years I lived in California. It took being all the way across the country to get me out to Death Valley. Which might explain why I actually got up before dawn just to watch the sunrise at Zabriskie Point. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2010/okeefenokee.jpg" alt="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2010/03/so-far-i-have-not-found-science" class="u-url" title="So Far, I Have Not Found The Science">So Far, I Have Not Found The Science</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2010-03-13T12:50:48">March <span>13, 2010</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Okefenokee Swamp</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="30.913415518451895"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-82.1832228795993"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A canoe trip through the Okefenokee Swamp down in the southern most corner of Georgia. Paddling the strange reddish and incredibly still waters. Begging alligators, aching muscles and the kindly folks of Stintson's Barbecue all getting their due. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even first"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/traveltheworld.jpg" alt="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/05/how-to-get-your-butt-and-travel-world" class="u-url" title="How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World">How to Get Off Your Butt and Travel the World</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-05-03T19:39:16">May <span>3, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95763520280544"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40871809752001"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + How do you make the leap from cubicle daydreams to life on to the road? You want to travel the world, but, like me, you have a million excuses stopping you. How do overcome the inertia that keeps you trapped in a life that isn't what you want it to be? Here's a few practical tips and how tos designed to motivate you to get off your butt and travel the world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry odd second"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" title="No Strangers on a Train"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/strangersonatrain.jpg" alt="No Strangers on a Train" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2009/04/strangers-on-a-train" class="u-url" title="No Strangers on a Train">No Strangers on a Train</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2009-04-13T19:36:13">April <span>13, 2009</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Athens</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.95818694160937"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-83.40824602873336"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + We mythologize trains because they harken back to an age of community travel, a real, tangible community of travelers, not just backpackers, but people from all walks of life, people traveling near and far together in a shared space that isn't locked down like an airplane and isn't isolated like a car; it's a shared travel experience and there are precious few of those left in our world. + </span> + </p> + </article> + <article class="h-entry hentry even third"> + <div class="post--image"> + <a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies"><img src="https://images.luxagraf.net/post-images/2009/codexofbunnies.jpg" alt="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies" class="u-photo post-image" /></a> + </div> + <h1 class="p-name entry-title post--title"><a href="/2008/12/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies" class="u-url" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies">Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies</a></h1> + <p class="p-author author hide">Scott Gilbertson</p> + <time class="dt-published published dt-updated post--date" datetime="2008-12-09T18:18:33">December <span>9, 2008</span></time> + <p> + <span class="p-location h-adr adr post--location"> + <span class="p-locality locality" itemprop="geo" itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Geo">Birmingham</span>, <a class="p-region region" href="/writing/united-states/" title="travel writing from the United States">Alabama</a>, <span class="p-country-name">U.S.</span> + <data itemprop="latitude" class="p-latitude" value="33.521441993672646"></data> + <data itemprop="longitude" class="p-longitude" value="-86.81079982502803"></data> + </span> – + <span class="p-summary hyphenate"> + A few pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks make a rare trip outside Italy, to Birmingham, AL, of all places. But the Birmingham Museum of Art is home to far more alarming works of art, works which depict the eventual, inevitable, bunny takeover, after which all the elements of our reality will be replaced by bunnies. Seriously. 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