Photo: Bernard Gagnon – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 I balance precariously on the drainage pipe, jutting out into the sand flat encrusted with oysters, barnacles, and slippery sea lettuce. My daypack, stuffed with sampling gear and my water bottle, slides into the...
Photo: Porterhse, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons A one story cinderblock building sits on a low rise just beyond the park. The row of numbered doors is nearly obscured by overgrown shrubbery and prairie grass grows patchy over the parking lot. The sign out front:...
This is an excerpt from the travelogue Baltimore by Annie Marhefka, during which she visits the American Visionary Art Museum (AVAM). Order your copy from writerinsites.com. First, I wander and I take no notes while I do, because I am here to be present, to experience...
Photo by Baltimore Heritage from Baltimore, MD, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons Every city has religious landmarks, places where the pious or curious can enter into. Some leave those places with a tangible reminder of their visit—a stone or card. Others leave with a...
Photo: Baltimore Heritage – Gundry/Glass Hospital (2015), CC BY 2.0 It had gotten to the point that if I didn’t get out to explore an abandoned building more often, I began to lose sleep, like a thief with one more safe I had to crack. I suppose I was what...
Photo by Maximilien Brice, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Inspired by a visit to CERN, Switzerland I come back home with my head filled with physics and heart filled with awe and start chattering to you. I gush about colliding particles and invisible dark matter...
