travelswithcharlie

A recent 3-day cross country drive yielded many good images. This one was taken soon after crossing the Mississippi River late in the afternoon of a long and beautiful day. The low sun skirted under the storm clouds and smacked the freight train up side the head. I had started on the eastern seaboard the previous day, heading for home in Texas on back roads the whole way. In the Google Maps app on my iPhone, I had set my home address as the destination with “Avoid Highways” as a filter, and I never hit an interstate the whole way. I rolled through woods, farmland, and small towns for days. The best road trips are not hurried. In his book “Travels With Charlie”, John Steinbeck said, “When we get these thruways across the whole country,… it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.” And the journalist Charles Kuralt said, “The little roads without numbers are the ones I have liked the best, the bumpy ones that lead over the hills toward vicinities unknown…I keep thinking I will find something wonderful just around the next bend.” This image was shot with the Sony RX-100 IV pocket camera. I have found it to be quite sufficient when I’m on non-professional sojourns, looking for something wonderful around the next bend.