Travel Archives - Susan J. Godwin

Dick & Jane primers have gone to that bookshelf in the sky. I have a tender feeling toward them, so I think it’s for the best. -Chris Van Allsburg

By Susan October 2, 2026TravelNo Comments

If you read me, you already know that I have a perfect wall of bookshelves: All of my pets are readers. So I thought I'd take a look at impressive…

Quest

By Susan June 11, 2026Travel

I was heading toward Eastwell and the Winchilsea estate, where poet Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, composed some of her best writing. The farther I traveled on the narrow Kent…

“I didn’t eat asparagus until I came here.”*

By Susan March 24, 2026Travel

Way (way) back, I was taking a graduate course, Literature and the Theatre, which involved traveling to NYC to see studied plays. We were about to see Tom Stoppard's Arcadia.…

The Balthazar

By Susan July 30, 2025Travel

“I didn’t eat asparagus until I came here.” CBS Sunday Morning, July 20, 2025. Oh Marcia Claire, where are you? Way back, I was taking a course that went to NYC to…

Pimm’s and Possibilities

By Susan July 10, 2025Travel

Oh, yum! While editing Rain Dodging, I couldn’t help but notice how often I imbibed a Pimm's & Lemonade! Stopping at a quaint pub, I descended three stone steps and sat…

Searching for the Abbey

By Susan February 5, 2025Historical, Travel

While with an eye made quiet by the powerOf harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.. -William Wordsworth From: Lines Composed a Few…

“You’re a different sort of chick, you are”

By Susan January 22, 2025Travel

It has been a decade since my second sojourn to Britain. I would live there if I could.Journal entry. British Channel. Calais, France. 2012. I enjoyed the ferry to Calais.* Sun…

Traverse City paradise

By Susan August 7, 2024Life Thoughts, Travel1 Comment

It never felt so goodIt never felt so right Traverse City is my father's hometown. We would visit my bubbe every summer-before the interstate! Long drive to be sure. But…

I Feel Lucky to be so . . .

By Susan April 25, 2024Travel

Visual. My world is a framed landscape. I see life as a gilt-framed painting, (Always have; I think I assumed everyone did.)

March 29, 2024 Anglophilia? Sounds like a disease. However, the definition by Merriam Webster: Unusual admiration or partiality for England, English ways, or things English.” I confess that I am an Anglophile.…