Or…… Postcards and elsewhere
Most of us inhabit just one home, live in one town, and know intimately one locality. This makes every other regions as “elsewhere”. Adventures are usually to places we’ve never been. Exploration opens seeing and sharpens our senses in newness. Sometimes reassuring dormant beliefs, sometimes reinforcing core values, yet sometimes exposing ourselves to new perspectives.
Travelogue images, …aka postcards, attempt to capture a sense of place. Postcards are often used to give context to folks back home. Mostly these images reinforce the known, learned, or the seen. Sometimes, if only rarely —they open us to the unexpected or unknown.
Bahia Drake believed to be a port used in the 16th century by Sir Francis Drake.
Pachacuti erected estates memorializing Incan victories. None more iconic than Machu Picchu.
Cusco locals buy fruits, vegetables, and meats fresh and many Mercados dot Cusco.
Petit Portal is natural arch eroded by Great Lake Gichigumi's powerful waves.
Badlands has long been associated with fossil vertebrate research—much deposited in the Charon formation.
Singer Island is not really an island but a peninsula named after sewing machine magnate Paris Singer.
Michigan's Upper Peninsula is a vast game wilderness.
Bluegrass country, with iridges, arched lanes, and winding roads is perfect for cutting loose -especially in the heady 70's.
Frank Lloyd Wright moved from Wisconsin to Chicago while receiving a commission back at the homestead