Retrospective (5/16/2016)
Patch #108 Driving the Winding Stair in Oauchita National Forest ...
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A CD purchased at Crystal Bridges provided the perfect soundtrack ...
as the wind buffeted us ...
until we found ourselves at the foot of the Winding Stair ...
which took us through the Ouachita National Forest ...
giving new meaning to hairpin turns ...
Looking back the way we had come ...
little did we know there would be little more to see for virtually every mile left in the journey. Fortunately, traveling at 75 mph (the posted speed limit) on undivided two-lane roads, we finally found our way to a Nacogdoches B&B with nary a thunderclap to be heard ...
May we be as fortunate tomorrow when we drive the final leg of our journey, into the heart of the storm ...
Blessings for your safe journey home.
ReplyDeleteI'm going to try singing to the blackland prairie ...
Deleteam traveling With you.....
ReplyDeleteam sitting here on the screen at 8:03pm in N Mex looking at the pic of the
ReplyDeleteB and B room and
how surreal it feels....
looking at this pic
how i FEEL you standing there as you enter this
sleeping room
stand there with your camera, or phone, whatever, but standing there snaping this pic
and then you and Don will haul in you basics for the night and turn those
linens back, stretch out and
SLEEP
to wake, Go Again
what a little movie this created for me about Travel, how disconnected it all is yet so much some kind of Part of the Whole...
last time i traveled i drove from N Mex to Minnesota
Safe home is an expression that I heard spoken when we were in Ireland. Safe home Liz and Don and may your singing ease the way but boy do I wish you could stay put until this storm is over!
ReplyDeleteboy, could Texas use a break!
ReplyDeleteThank you, one and all.
ReplyDeleteoh, the vastness of your land, it is beautiful to behold
ReplyDeleteWe love its wide open spaces ... and in the first few pictures I was trying to capture something I call cloud quilting, where the sun and the clouds combine to create patches of light and dark. Makes my heart sing every time I see it!
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