But instead, all I got was this tiny seat on a tin-can of an airplane. I investigated the details of how I would possibly get to...

If there’s one thing I felt after reading the excellent New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg ( eds. Marshall Berman and Brian...

If there’s one thing I felt after reading the excellent New York Calling: From Blackout to Bloomberg ( eds. Marshall Berman and Brian...

Bicing – Bicycles for rent in Barcelona. RL Fifield photo, 2008. Make sure you slip in that “th.” Bar-thelona. Crazy architecture. Eating...

Bicing – Bicycles for rent in Barcelona. RL Fifield photo, 2008. Make sure you slip in that “th.” Bar-thelona. Crazy architecture. Eating...

She passed away this year, and today they are holding a memorial concert in her honor in Williamsburg. Barbara lived there with her...

She passed away this year, and today they are holding a memorial concert in her honor in Williamsburg. Barbara lived there with her...

Balyeat’s Coffee Shop. RL Fifield photo, 2005. Gas was 99 cents a gallon in the Midwest in May of 2005. Driving east across the Indiana...

Balyeat’s Coffee Shop. RL Fifield photo, 2005. Gas was 99 cents a gallon in the Midwest in May of 2005. Driving east across the Indiana...

While I think the city of Baltimore had little to do with inspiring the creation of this dance tune by Fred Rich and the Hotel Astor...

While I think the city of Baltimore had little to do with inspiring the creation of this dance tune by Fred Rich and the Hotel Astor...

Art from a $36/night motel in Ft Wayne, IN. The picture is blurry because I had to get out of there. Motel operator horror vacui must...

Art from a $36/night motel in Ft Wayne, IN. The picture is blurry because I had to get out of there. Motel operator horror vacui must...

New York Penn Station, thy name is Melancholy. New York’s Pennsylvania Station. Lost, 1963. Photo credit: New York Public Library via...

Cafe Witteveen (run by friend Jeremy W.) featured a website dedicated to the insignias of railroads long gone by. Honoring my Maryland...

Cafe Witteveen (run by friend Jeremy W.) featured a website dedicated to the insignias of railroads long gone by. Honoring my Maryland...

Philadelphia – it’s not all founding fathers and liberty bells. City Hall, from the Ben Franklin Parkway. I went to Philly as an adult...

Red Apple Rest, Southfields, NY, 2007. RL Fifield photo. A photo moment for the wayside respite that was the Red Apple Rest, on Route 17...

I prefer rehabbed PCCs, but at least it’s a streetcar! Photo credit: mariordo59 via Visual hunt / CC BY-SA Streetcar service ended in...