Life on the Blue Highways

Snow on Pensacola Beach

January 26, 2025.Reading time 6 minutes.

Kat and I usually try to spend the coldest month anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere on Pensacola Beach. In old Pensacola stands one of the world’s great seafood markets, Joe Patti’s. Normal winters here include at least a dozen sunny days fit for beachcombing, with a few warm enough to charbroil shrimp. But this year […]

Crater Lake

May 31, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Kat, Bugger, and I embarked upon a two-night excursion to Crater Lake National Park, and it made such a powerful impression on the humans I just had to write this while it’s fresh. I came expecting to see the world’s bluest water – if the weather cooperated – and it did. We enjoyed near full […]