With plenty of pleasant routines in the tri-corne of CT after primarily being in Brooklyn for the past few years, I thought I'd seen most of the world that I wanted to see. I did my one big trek around the US 35 years ago... for a few months, seeing family, friends, national parks and lots of the highway. Even a plane ride, a drive up the California coast after the Grand Canyon and meeting a lot of family in the NM area.
I have had some time to think about that lovely venture and be grateful that it came at a time when I had felt the difficult loss of a friend at Vassar whose life ended in
