I’ve seen the so-called artwork of the man named Christo. Bright orange flags draped over the pathways of Central Park, wending the way through the trees and along the pavement like a snake along a farm creek. In Central Park, the little spit of “natural” land in the concrete jungle of New York City, Christo’s art project seemed to fit. [...]

I’m lucky enough to live in Lewiston, Maine right now (haha, that’s a joke you’d probably only get if you live here in Maine). The problem is, that is a joke. But Luke Livingston, a Lewiston native has other ideas for his fair city, and he’s taken the first step toward helping to change Lewiston’s image by starting his own [...]

Did you know you can hike to the National Christmas Tree on December 12 with a bunch of other hardy souls? Did you also know that the National Christmas Tree is not in Washington, D.C.? The National Parks Traveler blog has a nice little article about the event to be held on Decmeber 12. If you’re in the Kings Canyon [...]

I love New York. I really do. San Francisco’s cool, London’s hip (too hip for this blue collar boy), Tokyo’s cutting edge. But New York is raw and emotional, and I love that city so much. Yes, I moved away to Maine last year to get away from the hubub of city life, and I haven’t been back to NYC [...]

There are millions of places on this planet where you have never been. Think about that for a second. Of all the places you have been in your life, there exist places you have never and will never experience. Don’t think too hard on that, because if you love to travel like I do, it will probably depress the hell [...]

I had a funny conversation with my sister last week where we attempted to estimate exactly how much time we had spent staring into Thunder Hole in Acadia National Park as children. It was my dad’s favorite.  Every year (sometimes twice a year), from the time we were in preschool, all the way into our teens, we were forced to stare into [...]

It’s the early 1950s in Waterbury, a mid-sized mill town in western Connecticut, known affectionately as the “Brass City.” While the city’s occupants go about their daily routines, one man decides a tribute to his Lord and Savior is desperately in order. So he begins to build. For the next several years, John Baptist Greco (attorney and evangelist) organizes hundreds [...]

I love abandoned places. Ghost towns, decaying hospitals, former amusment parks. There’s something both beautiful and grotesque about a building that has been left behind, subject to the elements, with no humans to make repairs to it, care for it, live in it, that I can’t get out of my head. When I look at an abandoned place, I wonder [...]

You’ve seen Russ & Laura of PathLessPedaled.com profiled here on Part Time Vagabond, but I thought it was fitting to have them close out Road Trip Month with a different perspective of life on the road. Long term road tripping has a unique set of challenges, but slow it down with only two wheels, and a whole new world — good [...]

Erin Dow is chef/owner of Eatswell Farm, a Maine-based catering firm. She is also the Expert Chef for the Guiding Stars Licensing Company and the Consulting Executive Chef for Professional Catering Services, a company that provides backstage production catering to the music industry. I do two kinds of travel: business travel and mommy travel. For business, my travel generally involves [...]