Spent the morning wandering thru Forest Cathedral, one of the earliest and most influential campaigns to protect old growth forests on private lands, which resulted in the creation of Cook Forest State Park (PA). A lovely walk, should have taken some more photos! 🏷️ 25.05C
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Stopped by this fun little local waterfall today, tucked into a small grotto near a railroad line. Looks like the local church maintains the parking area. 🏷️ 25.05C
Tonight’s view over the Allegheny River. 🏷️ 25.05C
It would not surprise anyone that the birthplace homestead of Rachel Carson has a yard like this. Paying homage to an American great. 🏷️25.05C
The dichotomy of the year 2025: tech dude playing around with his high end drone gear midday on a Monday while two seemingly-homeless dudes stretch out and relax on the next benches over. 🏷️ 25.05C
At the rapid pace I keep on some of these road trips, esp those that I’m planning on the fly, it’s just impossible to coherently post photos/updates. Every trip I assume that it’ll be different this time—for some unknown reason—and yet…same story. Anyway, I’m seeing lots of fun stuff! 🏷️ 25.05C
I’ve been traveling pretty fast since landing in Columbus on Sat afternoon. But here’s what my accommodations have looked like so far. While I brought a tent, I’ve just been sleeping in the rental car—which has been quite handy, as I’ve been arriving at camp around midnight. 🏷️ 25.05C
I believe it 😂 🏷️ 25.05C
After getting stuck behind at least two dozen buggies over the last 15 miles of rural highway, I was not at all surprised to find this sign. 25.05C
Roadside truths
“If you save one life, it is as if you saved the world.”
📍 The Ohio Holocaust and Liberators Memorial 25.05C
I’m off on a 2+ week questing roadtrip adventure. I’m flying my camping gear into Columbus, then heading across northern PA via Pittsburgh. Jen flies into Philly midweek, and we’ll hit several national park units up into Maine. She’ll fly home from Boston, and I’ll drive back to Columbus. 25.05C
It’d be great to have a good term for this : We Need to Remember Problems We Solved
Our local brewery has a thing about tiny dinosaurs; three scattered throughout. So we had to offer up our own addition (they provided the can). 😆
I wrote a bit about our recent weekend of local museums, which included a neighborhood historical society, a historic fire station, and an exhibit and interpretative site on the WWII-era Japanese American internment camp that was located just south of metro Phoenix.
Today is the one year anniversary of my dad’s death.
It’s been a weird year since he passed away. I’ve vacillated between reflection, gratitude, sadness, and confusion. Today, I’m commemorating it with a beverage (or several) at the place we’d enjoy happy hour together in his last few years.
When the wife notices that the BEST DEAL you found happens to add a couple days (cough—ok, quite a few—cough) to the trip, which might allow you to pull some of your roadtrip shenanigans that deposit you in states adjacent to the states adjacent to where you had planned on going, for weird quests.
Saturday afternoon at the office.
My local public library branch now offers their own version of Amazon Lockers for hold items, which means you can show up any time of day and pick up the book or media item you reserved online without ever going inside.
