Massachusetts wins with their complete disregard for rules or even spelling when it comes to pronouncing their town names. So let’s take a test and have some fun.
Author: Journey Waters
Author, Poet, Craftsman
I’ve been writing and sharing stories from the road since 2013. I also have a YouTube channel under The Itinerant Craftsman where I travel the USA performing unique and challenging construction projects out of my Custom Overland Truck. You might also find me at a Tantra or Music festival.
From the Florida Keys to Gloucester MA
27 nautical miles north of Boston, MA lay an old fishing village located on the Inner Harbor of Gloucester, MA. A peninsula named Rocky Neck just out into this harbor and serves as home to one of the oldest continually operating art colonies in the United States, the Rocky Neck Artist Colony.
2016 What a ride you’ve been
I entered 2016 on a dark horse. Still in mourning over the loss of Lexie to cancer just a week earlier, I had little to celebrate. No matter how much I tried, I could not escape the cloud that hung over me. A ray of sun would break through, even if only for a moment.
Christmas in the Florida Keys
Christmas as we see it today is a by-product of the advertising industry and that industry was based in New York City so no wonder the images I saw so closely matched my experiences.
Twelve Tomorrows
They had told me you only had three months to live. December arrived marking ten and we were living large. The only thing I ever focused on was today. I didn’t allow myself to think of tomorrow.
Flagler Beach Art and Wine Tour
We arrived in Flagler and I began to think how similar it was to Ormond. The brightly colored buildings, the smell of the ocean’s salty air, but mostly it’s the approach. To get to these beaches, you have to cross the bay.
Lake Disston Florida
Like me, Thea and David live on a lake facing west. This means we’re treated to some spectacular sunsets and tonight would be no different. I could have taken a hundred pictures of that spectacular sunset and still not captured its beauty.
Welcome to Florida
I had to hurry up and find an attendant as I needed help getting all my bags off the train along with my bike, trailer and checked luggage. Once I got off the train and into the 87 degree temps of Winter Park, the attendant told me to wait right there for my luggage, but after
A Midnight Train
This trip was to be no different. While I had decided to head to the Florida Keys since ending my kayak expedition early, I had no idea how I was going to get down there. It wasn’t until I bought a bicycle to get around in Vermont that I started to play with the idea of biking down, but after looking at the cost factor involved in that, it would be as expensive as flying and I was trying to avoid expensive.
Happy. Thanks. Giving.
Still, happiness over the holidays had vanished. Don’t get me wrong, with Lexie by my side, I found happiness just about everywhere, but that Norman Rockwell childhood happiness most of us experienced had vanished and was replaced by truth.