Lancaster to London

“When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

It rained all morning the day I took the 2 1/2 hour train ride from Lancaster to London. It was a high-speed train, and it swayed from side to side as the scenery whizzed by in both sides of my peripheral vision. Reading seemed impossible. In fact, avoiding motion sickness seemed impossible. So I occupied myself snapping shots out the window. Most of my results came out as blurry as expected, but I was quite pleased with some of the shots. The way the water played on the window, and the blurry, vibrant whisps of countryside and rail stations captured by chance, seem to pay proper tribute to my anticipation of adventures to come.

Ain’t No Surer Way: Travel

There is nothing like the feeling you get looking out the window when you’re about to land in a far off place you’ve dreamed about visiting since you were a kid.  This was the view just before landing in Manchester when we took our recent trip to England.  In the next few posts, I’ll chronicle some of those adventures.  There is almost nothing I enjoy more than traveling and photographing.   Allen and I have taken a few trips together and I am delighted to say that we do very well as travel companions.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.  ~Mark Twain

Landing in Manchester
Landing in Manchester

UK Snap

“Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.”
Susan Sontag
Lancaster, UK - Molly Jarboe

Near Lancaster, UK – Molly Jarboe – Instagram

We Have No Heads

“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” – Carl Gustav JungWe Have No Heads, New Orleans by Molly Jarboe, 2011
We Have No Heads, New Orleans by Molly Jarboe, 2011

T-Rex in Pendleton

‘Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.’ Kurt Vonnegut

(I saw this cement t-rex in Pendleton, NY and I did a U turn a quarter of a mile down the road to go back and get this shot.  I took several shots and decided to post this Instagram version on facebook.  My sculptor friend, Dave recognized it and gave me the back story.  It was sculpted by John Czerwinski – cement man for Dave’s father when Dave was growing up.  As an adult, Dave worked with John on new houses for many years.)

An Instagram by MJJ