Are we there yet?

"Happy Motoring"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast-to-coast without seeing anything ..." - Charles Kuralt

Broad Road Walk -

"Roadside Blossoms"
manipulated digital photograph by Mick Mather

"... the month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit ..."
- Thomas Malory

Inlet, New York or BUST!

"Road Trip"
digital collage by Mick Mather

"... I travel not to go anywhere, but to go; I travel for travel's sake; the great affair is to move ..."
- Robert Lewis Stevenson

Illustration Friday: Choose -

"Every Musicians Lament"
$50 Unframed - LUCAS GALLERY
digitally manipulated photograph by Mick Mather

This week at Illustration Friday, choose, is the theme. I put this image in the context of one of the potholes in the road of a traveling musician. In particular, those times when you have the good fortune to be in one place for a week, perhaps two or that delightfully rare occasion, an entire summer at a happenin' club in some beach resort town. You get time to relax and do other things besides pack, travel, unpack - repeating the cycle night after night. You might even have a chance for more than a 1-night-stand if that's what you "choose", but beware of the lament, where the final day might be an oppressive face-to-face. "What's it going to be?" she demands, "me? Or the highway?" Get on the bus, Gus.