In 2015 I felt a strong need for a break from my life teaching at the University of Oregon, and at the same time we realized the complete pointlessness of continuing in middle school for our daughter. The obvious answer was a road trip. So Greta and I (Peter Keyes), undertook a nine-month, around-the-country peregrination in our 16-foot Scamp trailer, Peregrine.
We drove east to Chatham, then south to Miami, then west to San Luis Obispo, then north to Oregon. I took a leave from the university, and Greta was home-schooled (road-schooled?) in lieu of eighth grade, while Linda was left behind as a hostage. We visited friends, cities, architecture, and landscapes, and saw as many adorable animals as possible.
The links at the top will take you to a page which provides some context for the trip (About Peregrine nation), a trip highlights page, an incomplete day-by-day journal, or to the blog posts in reverse chronological order. Below is a thumbnail photo index of our travels, in chronological/geographical order, which is probably better for browsing than the other options available in WordPress. Click on a thumbnail to go to that blog post, or click on the month to go to the archive of all blog posts for that month. The red typeface means that Greta wrote the post.
September, 2015
Across the north
Day Two
Architecture in Idaho
Craters of the Moon – ID
Old Faithful Inn
Yellowstone NP
Elk Chili
Devil’s Tower
Kitsch, high and low
Badlands
Prairie Dog God
South Dakota weirdness
South Dakota roots
Cecil’s Deli
Twin Cities
The Capistrants
FLW in Racine
The Machine in the Garden
Chicago 1
Velvet Taco
Samantha Duba
Field Museum
October, 2015
Midwest to Northeast
Chicago 2
Frances Bronet
Chicago deep-dish pizza
Chicago 3: downtown form
Original Nutella Cafe
IIT
Aaron Venn
The Africanos
Lynn Dearborn
Columbus, Indiana
Indianapolis
Selfies
Aunt Dawn and Uncle Bill
Skyline Chili
University of Cincinnati
Cincinnati
The Davies
Wheeling, West Virginia
The National Aviary
Hamburgers
Pittsburgh
The Carnegie Museums
John Wenzel
Safe Bison-Selfies™, Part 2
Kim and Sarah Carlsen
Cataract (Niagara Falls)
Selfies, Part 3
Frank Lloyd Wright, Part 2
Kahn – Unitarian Church
Backroads
Buffalo and Rochester
Terrance and Carolyn
HH Richardson
Dave McGann
The Empire State Plaza
Mass MOCA
Hot Dogs, Part One
Jon Ehrmann
Cider and doughnuts, MV
Martha’s Vineyard
Jenny Young
Cape Cod
Back in the day
Boston that hasn’t changed
Ray and Rickie
Mike and Cathie
Kahn – Exeter Library
Shores, South and North
November, 2015
Northeast & Mid-Atlantic
New things in Boston
Jim McCarthy
Cambridge
Boston museums
Andres Art Institute
Whitney Museum
New York
Fun with Frank (Stella)
History: Mill towns
Radburn, New Jersey
Mercer Museum
Philadelphia
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Family (northern edition)
Aquariums
Baltimore
Annapolis
National Zoo
Felafel in DC
College friends
Smithsonian Natural History
Washington, DC
Harpers Ferry
Luray Caverns
High School friends
Photos
Selfies, Part 4
December, 2015
The Southeast
Charlottesville
Kerry Moran & Mark Rylander
Brock Environmental Center
The Hofheimers
Raleigh
Barbeque
Hot Dog Blog, Part Two
Middleton Place
Perez Art Museum
Jeff Thompson
South Florida
Family (southeastern division)
Homosassa Springs
St. Augustine
January, 2016
The South
Jacksonville & Timucuan Reserve
Fernandina Beach
Treylor Park
UO grads
Savannah
Beaufort, South Carolina
Charleston
Hushpuppies
The Allman Brothers / Macon
Gentropy
Apalachicola
Seaside – 30 years later
Roadside kitsch
Alabama
Barbecue, Part 2
Ohr-O’Keefe Museum
Biloxi, Mississippi
Beignets
February, 2016
Louisiana & Texas
On the bayou
Insectarium
St. Anthony’s Ramblers – Mardi Gras
The Panorama Jazz Band (videos)
Mardi Grad 2016 (video)
Beignets extended
Garrison Keillor
Bao and Noodle
People, parties and parades
New Orleans – the older city
Glen Pitre
New Orleans – the newer city
Greta’s New Orleans
Northern Louisiana
Barbecue 3
The Kimbell
Perot Museum of Science
Dallas
Kathy Armstrong
Houston
The Menil Collection
Texas engineering cousins
Valentina’s BBQ Tacos
Austin
Roberto Cipriano
Barbecue and the sublime
San Antonio Rodeo
San Antonio
Big Bend National Park
March, 2016
The Southwest
Donald Judd in Texas
Marfa, Texas
Food Shark
19th century forts
Carlsbad Caverns
Tucson
Saguaro National Park
Displaced persons
Culinary Dropout
Operation Domino
Phoenix
Arcosanti
Mexican food 1
Las Vegas
April, 2016
The Colorado Plateau
Zion National Park
Bryce Canyon
Architecture in Utah
Canyonlands NP
Arches National Park
Monument Valley
Intercepting the Colorado
Antelope Canyon
The Grand Canyon
The two sides of Arizona
Selfies, Part 5
Hopi Pueblo
Tsegi (Canyon de Chelly)
Chaco Canyon
Sandwiches
Mark Childs
Albuquerque
Santa Fe
House of Eternal Return
May, 2016
The West
Taos
More pueblos
Cliff dwellings
Double Negative
Christine Theodoropoulos
Brian Leverich
Corkscrew
Monterey Bay Aquarium
The Promised Land
Beth Wilbur
Jolie and Albert
UC Santa Cruz
The Finrows
California coastal towns
The Stanford campus
Stanford art buildings
SF MOMA
Silicon Valley
SF undergrads
Fashion
Palo Altoan Vietnamese
The East Bay
Dan Rabin
The North Coast
Glass Beach
Cascadia
The end of the road
Trip summary posts
Signs
Logistics: camper strategy
Trailer park life
Planning the trip
Life on the road
July, 2018
The inland Northwest
On the road again
The Huckleberry Smash
Glacier NP – west side
Glacial architecture
Glacier NP – alpine lakes
The Palouse
Architecture in the Palouse
Roadside attractions – MT
2020-2021
The Oregon Coast
The next adventure
Holiday Farm Fire
Peregrine nation 