Diary/Photo Journal Index

U N I T E D   S T A T E S


Week of travel           Starting         Places visited during the week
                                     Page

Week of 20, July 2003        Page 1-3           California - Oregon - Washington
Week of 27, July 2003        Page 4-7           Washington
Week of 03, August 2003    Page 8-11        Leaving Washington - Glacier National Park - Yellowstone -
                                                                    Wyoming - Sturgis - Mt. Rushmore - South Dakota
Week of 10, August 2003    Page 12            Minnesota - Chicago
Week of 17, August 2003    Page  13,14      St. Louis - a few fixes - Marengo, Indiana - Churchill Downs
Week of 24, August 2003    Page 15-18      Gettysburg - 1st Anniversary - Amish country - Atlantic City -
                                                                    Philadelphia -Washington DC - Fredericksburg - Jamestown -
                                                                    Yorktown
Week of 31, August 2003    Page 19-21      Kitty Hawk, North Carolina - a little fix - New Orleans - New Mexico
Week of 07, Sept. 2003       Page 22,23      New Mexico - Colorado - Arches National Park
Week of 14, Sept. 2003       Page 24           Utah - Lake Powell - Zion - St. George - home to Huntington Beach

 

 

 
    I found myself back in the sepulchral city resenting the sight of people hurrying through the streets to filch
       a little money from each other, to devour their infamous cookery, to gulp their unwholesome beer, to dream
       their insignificant and silly dreams. They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge
       of life was to me an irritating pretence because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew.
      
       Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the
       assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger
       it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining
       myself from laughing in their faces so full of stupid importance.

       (Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad 1899)

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