Category: Travel
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The Dune Shacks
Well, O’Neill was right about that: you’ll be alone and undisturbed except from the hardiest and most determined hikers. Getting to the ramshackle cabins that once sheltered some of the early 20th century’s literati (e.g., Mary Heaton Vorse, Eugene O’Neill, Harry Kemp, John Dos Passos) involves crossing a moonscape of shifting mountains of sand, stands of scrub pine,…
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IWR 2026
Just back from the Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavik. Always a great experience—indoors and outdoors. Readings and workshops, mixed with waterfalls, geysers, and periodic volcanic eruptions. And depending on luck and the time of year, puffins and the Northern Lights. I didn’t see the Aurora Borealis last week in Iceland, but it may be visible tonight in…
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“The High Mountains of Portugal”
Back from another trip to Portugal—one day before a general strike shut down most of the air and ground transportation in the country. We wandered through some of the northern towns this time, including Porto, Vila do Conde, Régua and Pinhão along the Douro River, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, mountainous Monsanto, and a quick visit to Portugal’s…
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Call me slow in getting here.
I started my own little literary tour of New England authors at the end of 2022. My last visit and blog entry about this tour was in July 2023. Finally, yesterday, I was able to add a new site to the tour. This one: Arrowhead. Herman Melville’s home in Pittsfield, Massachusetts where he penned Moby Dick and never…
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Northern Europe
Just back from Iceland, and a quick tour of northern Europe, including Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, and a quick train trip into Sweden. Now if I can just get back to writing.
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Iceland
Just back from the Iceland Writers Retreat in Reykjavik. Great to be back in Iceland. Great to have met so many interesting people and fellow writers.