Phoenix of Love

If you’ve noticed with dismay the lack of posts from me in the past few days, I’d like to put you in touch with the management of the hotel I’ve been staying at this weekend. This delightful establishment, which because of a football game is currently home to several thousand people in orange and black [...]

What is the deal with the six-way intersections in Midwestern cities? They absolutely baffle me. Four years in New England gave me an intimate understanding of roundabouts and other bizarre traffic artifacts, but these six-way intersections creep me out. For those sadly unacquainted with this phenomenon, it’s what happens when you shove a random diagonal [...]

Driving down the highway on my way home today, enjoying the sudden fall colors, I began thinking about how strange and utterly different it looked.
Turns out it looked that way because it is strange and utterly different.
My first piece of evidence: not more than a quarter of a mile down the highway, I stopped for [...]