Texas is a Big State
Part 56 of my solo Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

Excerpted from my journal […]

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The Way to Amarillo
Part 55 of my solo Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

Excerpted from my journal as […]

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The painting I did called Donegal Standing Stone I has just been placed back for sale again.
[Update: This painting is now SOLD]
It was marked as […]

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So there I was. Doing the 3 “R”s. Just on a basic level though. So everyone could follow.
Reading. ‘Riting. And ‘Rithmatic.
-Wow, that was an intelligent […]

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The Texas Panhandle
Part 54 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

Excerpted from my journal. In the High […]

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Panhandles
Part 53 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

The next section of the journal is taped and […]

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The thing about this male chaffinch unlike the others by the lake, was the tunes he sang were all hit singles.
By female artists.
Food was accepted […]

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There’s paint on the brush so I won’t stop long, but I wanted to let you know that I’m connected to the world again after […]

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Ambush on Pancake Boulevard
Part 52 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

Excerpted from my journal. In southwest […]

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It’s very weird when I see a painting of mine after I’ve sold it and shipped it.
It’s kind of like seeing one of your […]

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In about half an hour I leave my Dublin destined for southern Leinster where I’ll be holed up for a couple of weeks painting a […]

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Dodge City
Part 51 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

Excerpted from my journal. Another day in Kansas.
Monday, […]

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-Is that supposed to be that over there?
-Why don’t you put that tree in it?
-My daughter is a great artist.
-Did you mean to do that […]

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Kansas is a Big State
Part 50 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

More from my journal. At […]

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Tomorrow morning I head off to Galway for a housepainting job.
I’m leaving at 6:30am, as I came to know it in America, or half-six as […]

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Somewhere in the Middle of West Kansas
Part 49 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

4 weeks after […]

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I know Raymond Crotty meant well but I’m not convinced that we should have entire treaties thrown at us in referenda.
A paragraph addressing the elements […]

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Kansas Again
Part 48 of the Cycle-Across-America series. (Read from the start in Boston or see the full index)

The next section of the journal is taped […]

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Just for comparison purposes.
At 10:15am this mid-June morning my mother in Ireland proclaimed that she was going to eat her breakfast outside.
Because “the heat would […]

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While I continue a quiet existence here on Irish KC, for those of you who don’t read around the wide and varied Irish blogging world […]

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