Seventh part of an eight-part series. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 8 By daylight I found myself out of place in Gettysburg almost instantly. Our hotel served a free but limp breakfast in a fluorescent-lit room with a depressingly industrial tile floor…

Sixth part of an eight-part series. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 7 Part 8 Let’s begin this by looking back at me, the narrator. I took this photo in the Asheville hotel. As my expression may indicate, my perspective after the eclipse and after…

Fifth part of an eight-part series. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 I shot video of our journey into the Blue Ridge, but I managed no good photos. …

Fourth part of an eight-part series. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 I could position the eclipse itself as a political happening. And I do not feel shy about that option. Of course eclipses are omens. They are omens even when nothing…

Third part of an eight-part series. Part 1 Part 2 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 South we drove still, the earth gradually turning to shine the sun right into my eyes in the passenger seat. The more that I caught the sun’s rays, the more…

Second part of an eight-part series. Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 We reached Philadelphia a little before sunset. I had not been to this city before, not really. I drove through it once without having an opportunity to stop, whereas in…

First part of an eight-part series. Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 Part 7 Part 8 To call this a travelogue is misleading and unwise. I did spend six days journeying through twelve states, most previously visited but barely explored. I did see things I had…

Last night, January 19th, 2017, I wondered this as I walked through western Cambridge, Massachusetts, near Memorial Drive, in a neighborhood where somewhat posh residential houses open up into some sudden strips of concrete retail, the filthy river and the glittering Boston skyline just in view. It is not a…

In my last blog post (not on Medium), I had let slip the fact that I feel inclined to use it for political essays but see this as a risky endeavor. Now I have made up my mind. What I say here is originally about my blog but it can…