History / Modes of Transport / Off-the-beaten-path / USA / Wandering
by Jeffrey Kontur · Published July 14, 2018 · Last modified July 5, 2018
Ghost towns aren’t just about the old, dilapidated buildings. For reasons unknown, people sometimes left their entire lives behind. Including cars, trucks, furniture and many other things. Here are some of the cars and trucks I found while touring the ghost towns.
History / Off-the-beaten-path / USA / Wandering
by Jeffrey Kontur · Published July 11, 2018 · Last modified July 5, 2018
Those who have known me for even 10 minutes know that I am no fan of the cold. I don’t use air conditioning and only rarely use fans. I don’t love extreme heat but can tolerate it better than most. On the other hand, I hate being cold. So it...
I have seen the World Pyrotechnic Championships in Toronto. (Yes, there is such a thing and it’s held in a different city every year.) Seeing fireworks over an alpine lake surrounded on all sides by soaring mountain peaks easily rivals that.
Bucket List / Nature / Off-the-beaten-path / USA
by Jeffrey Kontur · Published July 3, 2018 · Last modified July 2, 2018
On my way across the country, I rode 3,100 miles and passed through 14 states and four time zones. Ever since I saw photos of it in a magazine back in the 1980s, I have been dying to visit Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Before white settlement, the Lakota...
I’ll admit, I’m one of those super annoying people who leaps out of bed with the first rays of the sun, singing like a lark. Even worse, I do it all without the benefit of caffeine. Every once in a while I’ll, have some coffee but when I do I...
Looking at other people’s old chewing gum not your thing? I don’t blame you. However morbidly fascinating it might be, there’s something more than a little gross about it. Luckily, there’s far more to Seattle. Unlike many large American cities that sit on bays, lakes, or other enclosed bodies of...
Art / Off-the-beaten-path / USA
by Jeffrey Kontur · Published May 10, 2018 · Last modified May 7, 2018
