The Vacation Issue
Notes from Gentle Trips through the American Outback
in a Time of Distress

In early September, 2004, our editor/taskmaster surprised the staff by announcing
that we had been in full, uninterrupted production of Magellan's Log for 5 (five!)
years and that it was time for a vacation. For a month, staff members either
scattered or didn't scatter (as they chose) to the four corners of America.
They returned with these shards from a nation on the brink.

Caravaggio
or Bust
Our editor, his own self, sets out to track down some 400-year-old pictures for reasons we'll leave to him to explain.

Replacing Religion
Lines Written in a Stalled Rental Car at a BP Gas Station/ Convenience Store on the Marion- Mount Gilead Road in Marion, Ohio, While Waiting for Avis to Send a Replacement Vehicle (Which They Did with Admirable Alacrity)

Me and the U.P.
In Search of Paradise on the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Izora Firelands finds paradise in an unlikely place but without the 10,000 virgins.

Zen Centerfold 87
Another in our little sight-and- sound presentations for the strangely metaphysically prurient.

A Day in Pennsylvania
Fallingwater/Shanksville

Gehry's Tattered Titanium
Two Encounters with the Architect du Jour at Case Western Reserve University and Bard College.
Carl Yadkin, Architecture Editor.
Slideshow with music (1:34).

Here There Be Dinosaurs
Hubris and the American Future
Joel Fluker, in a Washington awash in unbridled greed, finds hope in the Greeks of 2,500 years ago.

Catskill Byway
One photograph and one old hymn tune. Oh. And one informational Interstate sign.

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