Category Archives: Travel

How I Came To Big River And Other Lies

Posted on September 9, 2011 by Terry Taylor

The story has many versions. One of them has me showing up at Big River ten years ago with hair down to my ass, driving a red convertible with a six-pack and two strippers. That’s not true, no matter how … Continue reading →

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Son Of A Beach

Posted on August 5, 2011 by Terry Taylor

Beaches do to me what chocolate does to some people. Months can pass before I need chocolate. I went a year once. I cannot, however, do without a beach for that long. The smell of coconut oil and spawning fish in … Continue reading →

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The Stains Of July

Posted on July 27, 2011 by Terry Taylor

Alabama summer harvest: Covington County tomatoes, Chilton County peaches and plums. Tweet This Post

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Cue Coma On The Street in Winter Park

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Terry Taylor

Barbecue is the most popular subject in Southern literature after drinking, Jesus and football. You cannot click on a Southern website, flip through a Southern magazine or unfold a Southern newspaper without a “Top 10” list of barbecue joints being … Continue reading →

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Notes From A 2,500 Mile Drive Across The South

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Terry Taylor

Over the next several posts, I will tell a few tales from a trip Susan and I recently took across Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Tennessee – most of the South as I know it. We also … Continue reading →

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It’s Hot as Hell and I Am Not In Key West Anymore

Posted on June 10, 2011 by Terry Taylor

Humidity chokes me as if a hot towel is wrapped around my head. It is too hot to write. Once the temperature pops 100º, my keyboard begins to reject my fingers, or perhaps it is the other way around. Above … Continue reading →

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The Pork Chops Of Bryant Park

Posted on June 1, 2011 by Terry Taylor

A 10-hour technology conference ends and Geoff and I take to the streets of New York City ready to stretch our legs. We walk for miles. It’s been a while for me since I roamed NYC and even longer for … Continue reading →

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Key West Conversations: Haint Blue

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Terry Taylor

The porch straining across the front of the old house on Elizabeth Street in Key West was painted Haint Blue. My aunt’s house had a large porch with a ceiling painted Haint Blue as well. My grandfather talked about haints … Continue reading →

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Key West Conversations: Damned Good Liars

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Terry Taylor

It took less than fifteen minutes to realize I had found a place that fit a part of me that I have kept prisoner under the guise of corporate bullshit for 30 years. I was still in the cab when … Continue reading →

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Conversations from Key West

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Terry Taylor

Scribbled on an AirTran barf bag are these words: “Below me, the Atlantic meats the Gulf of Mexico, blending in shades of Galaxie 500 peacock blue, luminescent aqua and deep cobalt surrounding the last island in the Florida Keys. Scabs … Continue reading →

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Going To Hell In the Panhandle

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Terry Taylor

It is an interesting name: Tate’s Hell, a swamp in north Florida. I’ve been there once. The place wasn’t a state forest then. I don’t know who owned it, which was the case with a lot of places I wandered … Continue reading →

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Leatherman In The Senate

Posted on April 30, 2010 by Terry Taylor

The sky over Washington, D.C. was enamel blue. Cherry blossoms and dogwood bloomed. The wind was whipping and the Visine was flowing. Union Station was over-run by commuters, tourist and at least one chubby congressman whom I recognized, but could … Continue reading →

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The Meaning Of D.C. Traffic

Posted on April 9, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Saying that Washington, D.C. has a traffic problem is like saying Angelina Jolie has huge lips. It is too obvious to even utter. But if you spend time in it, you begin to realize some patterns that lend prescience to … Continue reading →

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Airporn

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Have you seen the images from the new full-body scanners being used at airports now? It is supposed to better detect weapons by seeing through travelers clothes, allowing TSA officials to get a damned good look at your body, as … Continue reading →

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Irony Of The Road

Posted on April 2, 2010 by Terry Taylor

Another 1,800 miles on my odometer. Only 300 more to go. Over 6,000 on I-95, I-85 and I-65 since Christmas. The road is crowded, but lonely, everyone in their moving cans like tomatoes on the way to the shelf in … Continue reading →

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