inglorious wanderer

It is Lands End! It’s not Land’s End as I thought it was. Land’s End is a headland in Cornwall, UK. A headland is a narrow piece of land that projects from a coastline into the sea. I have always been fascinated with Land’s End or that place in San Francisco that brings to mind some brand of butter. I  was telling Nellie how I learned about the iconic place  while she drove.  “Catherine Lim? That’s the name of my niece!” “I meant Amy Tan.”  I corrected myself after a quick Google check. Amy Tan is the American Chinese author who wrote a book titled “Bonesetter’s Daughter. In the book, a character named Luling referred to the “Land’s End” as some kind of an amusement park. Luling also associated Lands End as a wasteland in her village in China called “End of the World” where bones of the dead are scattered.” Lands End is definitely not anything near Auguste Rodin's depiction of  "The Gates of Hell"  at the Stanford University, Nellie's bac...

The  way the Scottish  pronounce the last name of the man who would "rather be in the mountains thinking of God than in church thinking about the mountains"  sounds like  mute or mule:  myUUr. The Muir Woods National Monument memorializes one of John Muir’s more parroted thoughts: “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” Created  as a national monument for coast redwoods by President Theodore Roosevelt by the powers of the Antiquities Act on January 9, 1908, the former coast redwoods canyon was specified by the donor William Kent to be named after the noted conservationist John Muir. The Antiquities Act signed into law by President Teddy Bear establishes legal protection of cultural and natural resources in the US. John Muir who referred to the coast redwoods as Tamalpais sequoias exclaimed that the park being named after him was “the best tree-lovers monument that could possibly be found in all the forests of the wo...