The Eastside View

W E WALKED INTO THE SEA yesterday, ending our long walk across the French Alps. Well, not really, of course; the boots have been too good t...

Well we are here in Nice, but not quite: we haven't really finished the walk. Increasingly we find it hard to find a bed; and after 20 m...

W ELL, WE DIDN'T GET FAR today. It's hot and a little humid and I think somehow being down here in a valley instead of up there in ...

F IRST, A CORRECTION to the previous blog: as Thérèse pointed out, a better URL for the photos is here . We are now in Lanslebourg, in the...

You can see a few photos taken a week or so ago at http://www.flickr.com/photos/14329090@N04/sets/72157606041033930/

Bonneval-sur-Arc We crested the highest pass we'll be on on this entire walk today, and it was remarkably easy. The Col d'Iseran is ...

A DAY OF RAIN, our first. Oh well. We left a nice cheap hotel in Les Contamines aty about 8 am, walking a delightful road along the bonnant ...

IMAGINE TWO LITTLE dots on the "e" in Samoens, whose final "s" is silent. (Like the "p" in "swimming,...

LONG TIME SINCE contact; sorry. And now once again I work on an unfamiliar keyboard at a slow connection. The weather has been cooperative; ...

APOLOGIES FIRST: for the double send of the lqst dispqtch; qnd for the odd spelling here! I am using a French keyboard; and the sun is in my...

Chapelle d'Abondance, June 24-- Let's see: where was I? Oh yes: up early yesterday to watch the cows brought in for milking. One man...

Chapelle d'Abondance, June 24-- Let's see: where was I? Oh yes: up early yesterday to watch the cows brought in for milking. One man...

But it was a harder day than I anticipated. Up about five to see the dawn and take photos, then write with a first coffee -- black, in a bow...

This second day started well, proved difficult later, ended oddly, at least in my experience. I rose at six to do some writing and thinking;...

Creusaz, Friday, June 20-- Definitely a difficult day today though a short walk, no more than twelve km I think. We landed in Geneve about t...

T O THE I MAGINISTS LAST NIGHT , there to see a production called Travel , conceived and produced by its entire cast. To the point, since I ...

I T'S SO BEAUTIFUL HERE . We think about that every day, of course. Gratitude is increasingly the most pressing order of the day's b...

Y ESTERDAY I READ THIS POEM in a year-old annual brochure from the local Community Foundation and it knocked, as they say, my socks off: F...

Mt. Saint Helena in the distance across the dry fields south of Windsor U F: IT'S GETTING HOT , over ninety degrees today. I decided I n...

THE GUITAR, that ideal instrument: wood, steel, brass; a body famously like a woman's; a voice capable of insinuating melody or resonant...