http://blogs.bootsnall.com/alscott a slow transition from California to a new home (back) on the east coast with my trusty '87 Tercel, Rolo Mon, 29 May 2006 21:23:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Though I don't promise to stay in one place in the real world, I do promise to stop changing blogs so often. Regardless, the newly redesigned and very spiffy www.nomadchronicles.com will remain the place to track me down online. This is my last entry from this blog, since I'm certainly ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/alscott/redesigned-website-new-blog.html Some pictures from Kansas, courtesy of my cousin, and a few more pictures of Rolo's final day are in the Midwest album. Enjoy! So I've made it to New Jersey, and all's well... no immediate plans to go elsewhere--except to Ithaca/Syracuse next weekend for my brother's band's final show. Thanks for reading, ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/alscott/last-pictures.html Amazing how everything can change in a millisecond. Still completely enamored of the blue highways (see earlier post), last Friday I mapped a route from Chicago to Louisville, Kentucky, that would take me almost all the way to the Kentucky Derby, and the globalfreeloaders who'd agreed to host me for ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/alscott/on-the-road-without-rolo.html Available here. I suppose Denver isn't technically considered the Midwest, but whatever. Unfortunately my cousin Keri has all the pictures from my adventures in Kansas on her camera, so those will have to be posted later. http://blogs.bootsnall.com/alscott/more-pictures.html I've been to Chicago several times (although my friend Connie and I found that our collective memories of those visits are hazy at best, and we're not even sure if I've seen her there once or twice or more, and whether my trips were for business as well or just ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/alscott/chi-town.html I drove all the way from Salina, Kansas, to Aurora, Illinois, without getting on the interstate. I quickly realized the appeal of what writer William Least Heat-Moon calls the blue highways because they were that color on old highway maps: the act of driving itself is more enjoyable, I can ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/alscott/blue-highways.html Our time in Denver was spent with old friends, catching up on each other's lives, eating good food... We went to see the Bodyworlds exhibit, a fascinating way to learn more about the human body. It made me realize how much we take for granted that our bodies work relatively ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/alscott/catching-up.html The other day, a Kansas farm boy told me that he just didn't understand why anyone would want to live in the city (I think he was referring specifically to New York, but I'm sure his sentiments would apply to pretty much any big city) with "all those people, the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/alscott/city-slicker.html I just realized I went on to write about Utah before I was done with Vegas. I'll keep it brief: The next day we went back to the Hoover Dam and leaned way over the edge and photographed it from every possible angle. That night we were back on the ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/alscott/more-on-vegas.html All of the places my brother and I visited in Utah were repeats--we passed through this area on a family road trip when I was almost 7 and he almost 4. But our memories of that trip are vague at best--apparently I had the Grand Canyon and Bryce Canyon mixed ... http://blogs.bootsnall.com/alscott/on-a-clear-day-you-can-see-forever.html