Roll Out ... Again

Today I have started my trek back up to Ohio, taking the long way through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia. I will be taking hundreds of pictures once again, but here are some photos from the places I am going that I pinned on my Outside board on Pinterest.

Appalachian Trail

Amicalola Falls, North Georgia, part of the Appalachian Trail.

Appalachian Trail

West Virginia

Craggy Gardens, Blueridge Parkway, North Carolina

It is better to travel well than to arrive. - Buddha

I Saw Your Soul

mmm, I love a little poetry after supper ...

At last, another poetry day. For a while there I was hardly writing. I think there are these certain levels of anger I have to be within to write poetry and I was beyond the upper limits. Now I think the kingdom is back in order, that or my tolerance level has risen. Either way, here are some poems I wrote during my recent travels.

Get Behind Me

I walk with this limp.

I cannot remember

any other way.

When you get so used

to picking up the extra weight

what difference does

today make?

But I will not carry it tomorrow.

That's a new day

for new pain,

and you've burdened me enough.

Tonight I Am A Transylvanian

Pale, reclusive and coveting;

her dark eyes

pierce man's soul,

her luminous teeth

a man's carotid

so she never wore lipstick.

But they still came.

Whether for her skin

or life

she never asked.

When they'd remove

her lace

they were always entranced

by the white and subtle pink.

As a mister's hands

found her garter,

she would find a throbbing

neck

willing to be taken.

A disregard for pain

at the prospect

of her body.

As she wrapped her legs

around each,

her fangs broke

past the barriers of their

veins.

Going

It's not just a road

we're on,

it's a direction,

it's a choice.

I'm on

a dirt road, going

80.

I don't care if

yours is paved

or fucking gold;

I love my dirt road

and can't wait to see

where I'm headed.

109 In Arizona

My thighs

are so heavy

in these tight jeans.

They swear

if I don't free them,

I'll suffer

consequence.

We Met For A Few Seconds In Utah

You played

the guitar on the front step,

caught up in

years of thought,

frozen to that

chair

by all the cold.

Hair pulled

back to where your neck

and short sleeve met.

The wind pushed your chin

and lifted

the miles between us.

For a few seconds

I saw

your soul.

Roadtrip {Colorado, Utah, Arizona & New Mexico}

More pictures! Here are all of the states that weren't SD and WY … so Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico. This includes: Rocky Mountain, Zion, Kaibab, and Grand Canyon national parks and forest. When we first started snapping pictures in Rocky Mountain my camera died, so there is a point where I start using only my phone. Again, just click on the first picture to see it without the junk in front.

From here on these are phone pictures.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. - John Muir

Roadtrip {South Dakota & Wyoming}

I took a lot of pictures. A lot. I'm going to try breaking these down in to digestible chunks, but it's going to take me a few posts AND they will still be long posts.

Today is South Dakota and Wyoming, which includes: Badlands, Black Hills, Mt Rushmore, Shoshone, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton. Most of these were take using my camera, but there are also some phone pictures because I was trying to conserve battery power on my camera since I am an idiot and forgot my charger. 

Just click on the first picture to see it without the junk in front.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. - John Muir