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• My dark quest

  August 14, 2025

  The afternoon is bright and sunny, with only a smattering of bright cotton ball clouds in the deep blue sky. In the photo I am standing at the edge of a road, at a pull off area that overlooks a wide and meandering river. The color of my shirt almost matches the sky above me.…

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• Northern exposure part 2: a retrospect

  August 9, 2025

  It's been just over a week since I visited the monster bridge that dominates the tiny town of Bucksport in Maine last Friday. I really enjoyed that part of the trip, despite the creepiness and knowing that this lethal monster would be chained. It was a real paradox, an odd juxtaposition between s...

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• Northern exposure part 1: the long, dark shadow

  August 7, 2025

  A tiny town lies nestled along the rocky shore of a river, surrounded by forest blanketed hillsides and valleys. Small shops, cafes and other businesses line its main thoroughfare, mixed in with some private homes. Many of the buildings are older and quite a few appear to date from the 19th centu...

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• Lobsters and a monster…

  July 30, 2025

  For the past 24 hours I've been only about an hour away from something that inspires within me intense (and somewhat morbid) curiosity. The object of my fascination and existential dread lies to the north east of me along Route 1. In this part of Maine, Route 1 is only a two lane road that…

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• A step back in time

  July 28, 2025

  This past weekend I spent my Saturday at a quaint little amusement park hidden away in central Pennsylvania in the town of Elysburg. While everyone has heard of Disney, along with various Six Flags and other corporate parks, Knoebels is a little known family run park that hearkens back to amuseme...

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• Knoebels Amusement Park trip part 1

  July 25, 2025

  Today we made the drive to Elysburg, PA, in anticipation of my coaster club's annual summer event at Knoebels amusement park. The trip from my house took just under three hours, and most of it (save for going thru Harrisburg) was comprised of some freeway but mostly winding country roads. We ran ...

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• Roads to hell are paved with good intentions

  July 25, 2025

  Recently I have began preparations for some items that I will be selling in my online shop this fall in time for Halloween. Even though October is a little less than five months away, this is the time for me to start working on such projects. And then my mind, as it is often wont…

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• The genesis of a creation

  July 23, 2025

  Somewhere in the blackness of night, brilliant pinpoints of bluish light flicker in the distance, shining thru doorways as a storm starts to roll in. Distant rumbles of thunder precede flickering bolts of lightening on the horizon, and the wind begins to stir. Inside of a very large and unassumin...

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• Facing yet another monster

  July 20, 2025

  Ever so often my mind goes to some pretty dark places, even though I normally have a reasonably positive outlook. During the average day I have to focus on work, chores, and other necessary things. But there are times when I let my mind wander. Sometimes I am in anticipation of things looked forw...

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