Category: TRAVEL BLOG Gregory Ormson
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Returning from There part iii
IT LIES . . . (Google Maps), telling me a trip from Arizona to central Wisconsin is 1800 miles and 26 hours by car. Truth is, it’s nearly 5 days Returning From There, moving from hot to cold and back to hot again. It takes a certain kind of sisu to drive that shit, a…
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The Pairings There part ii
My listening is attentive to voices talking story. Tales come from friends of many years in finely tuned narratives, arriving like rivers, landing in my head after a journey along banks that bend and rebound and then morph into chronicles of the heart. These chronicles of the heart grow from the pairings there and .…
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The Getting There part i
In the getting there, things happen on a trip to make it more interesting. A friend wrote about traveling through the Ozarks when his car’s engine repair light came on. The fix was expensive, but while waiting for a local garage to repair his car, he explored the area and ended up writing an interesting…
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Pyramid Tomb Tour of Arizona: mysterious, memorable, and majestic
Hello Motorcycle friends. American Rider Magazine (journal of the International Big Twin community) will soon publish my story and many photos of an incredible mototour to Arizona’s three pyramid-tombs. They’re mysterious, memorable, and majestic – like the people buried inside – and they’re located in Quartzsite, Florence, and Papago Park in Phoenix. You can check…
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Tavelpictalogue May 17 – Sept 23
Going: Arizona, New Mexico, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Wisconsin, Michigan. Returning: Wisconsin, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, NM, and AZ.
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ONE BIRD, ONE STONE, AND ONE COB OF CORN
A memorable month on the home ground to see many family and friends. Two Wisconsin trips with Marquette, Michigan in between sweetened by literary frosting. The last nine days, Debbie came north to share in the good times. Thanks everyone for food and drink, word and music, for yoga and breath. Until next time, namaste…
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BIRTHDAY PARTY for DEBBIE
!! SOMEONE IS TURNING 60 !! Help CELEBRATE Debbie on her birthday THIS COMING Wednesday night, Feb. 27, at about 6:00 pm at the Handlebar Pub and Grill, (650 Apache Trail). 480-982-2091. The Handlebar is a “craft beer pub with 29 handles and nice wine list.” No liquor or fried food, all is grilled or…