I didn't stop traveling after the 12,000 mile road trip; nor stop learning.

For those unfamiliar, in the Summer of Year 2012, I road traveled solo for six-
ty days, covering 12,000 miles in the process.  My travels didn't end with the
12,000 road trip, even though I intended it to be so.  I eventually ended up in
the Shenandoah Valley early in 2013, for a couple of months, after a stay in
Pittsburgh.  I then went to the Midwest, in the general Great Lakes vicinity,
and next back to Pittsburgh, only to take an unplanned trip into Florida.  In
fact, my trip to the Shenandoah Valley was due to the death of an individual
whose longevity evaporated, due to a medical condition that accompanied him
at birth. 

The Long Distance Learning Session

In having covered the distance that I did, I learned things that aren't learned
by politicians who show-up at airports, in order to stay in comfortable hotels
and give campaign speeches on what needs to be done in today's world;  in a
world to which they're completely out of touch, outside of listening to lobby-
ists who don't lobby for the common good, but only for self-seeking interests.

Below are photographic mementos of my recent travels, after the 12,000 mile
road trip of 2012.  If time permits, I'll include those one-line lessons I learned
on the road which I wouldn't have learned otherwise.  It's that which the Newt
Gingriches & Rush Limbaughes, as well as the John Kerries & the Joe Bidens
of this world, won't otherwise perceive & absorb.

As a score-keeper's note:  I traveled as far north & east as Boston/Cambridge,
as far west as Oxnard California, and as far south as the Space Coast of Florida.
My travels took me through:  1} Massachusetts, 2} Connecticut, 3} New York,

4} New Jersey, 5} Maryland,  6} West Virginia,  7} Virginia,  8} N. Carolina,
9} South Carolina,  10} Georgia,  11} Florida,  12} Alabama,  13} Mississippi,
14} Louisiana,  15} Tennessee,  16} Arkansas,  17} Texas,  18} Oklahoma,
19} New Mexico,  20} Arizona,  21} California,  22} Missouri,  23} Kentucky,

24 ] Iowa,  25} Illinois,  26} Indiana,  27} Ohio, and then eventually back home 

to 28} Pennsylvania..

At other times,  I was in 29} Rhode Island,  30} Vermont,  31} Delaware,

32} Nebraska,  33} Wyoming,  34} Montana,  35} Michigan,  36} Wisconsin.  

I have never been in 1-Washington State,  2-Oregon,  3-Idaho,  4-Utah,  5-Nevada, 

6-Colorado,  7-North Dakota,  8-South Dakota,  9-Minnesota,  10-Kansas, 11-New 

Hampshire,  12-Maine,  13-Alaska, and 14-Hawaii.

If I ever come to have the time do so, I guess that I could state which state had
the best & worst of this, that, and the other thing ... personalitywise.  For now,

 prudence.

The northeast coast of Florida.

Downtown Saint Augustine, oldest city in the United States.

At port, in downtown Saint Augustine.

The land of the Shenandoah Valley

Metropolitan psychedelia, via sunlight & plate glass, Downtown Pittsburgh.

More psychedelia in the Pittsburgh region.

Progressive Field, Cleveland, in contrast to ...

... Heinz Field, in Pittsburgh

The Space Coast of Florida

The famous race track is on the main highway, in plain sight.

Take note of the palmetto tree in the background

Baltimore trolley

East Florida

Pittsburgh, the land of many technological firsts.

Cuyahoga National Park in Ohio

20 miles northwest of Pgh, along the Ohio River

Gettysburg

Gettysburg was a meditative place.

A Chesapeake area suspension bridge

One of my alma maters: Located at the Gulf coast of Florida.

Add Chicago to the equation

No introduction needed here.

Northern Illinois

                                    Below:  We need to add Wisconsin to the equation, also.

Milwaukee

Same area

Inside a Milwaukee Museum

The First Time I Was Nationally Published, Part 1

This is in the Harvard University Library, a Northwestern Univ. library, a North Carolina Univ at Chapel Hill library and a few other ones.  I was 20 years old when I was first published.

The First Time I Was Nationally Published, Part 2

As was previously stated, this is in a Harvard library,at Cambridge Mass,
Northwestern University and North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a few others.

Two Other Available Literary Credits

Concerning writing, I was influenced at the academy, at a young age.  It was one 

teacher who brought it out.  Then, at a private university, it was one professor who 

refined it ... a Renaissance scholar and laureate published thousands of times.  

You have to be in control of your senses and perception as a matter of instinct, in
order for you to notice what needs to be conveyed or expressed in writing.  You
can't do it by a rigid set of mechanics.  You still need to possess the sensitivity to
notice things that others overlook, no matter how many teachers are involved in
your education.

If you can feel it, whatever it is at the time you are feeling, you can communicate it;   
if you're in control of your senses while communicating.  If you're not in control,
then your writing will become melodramatic, sickeningly sweet, or rigidly starched.

Parts of Medical Exam Reports

                                                    First Page of Allergy Test Results

         
                                        Part of a Transcription after an Exam

A Summary of Medical Condition

Detox Pathway Test Results

The inordinate level of acetaminophen mercapturate in the test results is a sign of a high
level of a toxic metabolite known as N-acetyl-p-benzoquinoneimine (NAPQI) which is
produced in persons hypersensitive to acetaminophen and other "Cytochrome P-450 
inducers." 

The damage cause by NAPQI is reversible liver damage, on the cellular level.  The
mercapturate simultaneously is produced as an antidote during a hypersensitivity re-
action.  It neutralizes the NAPQI.  Now, it is possible that more NAPQI exists than 
mercapturate.  So, the test result only showed how much mercapturate was being 
produced during an adverse reaction to acetaminophen.  It didn't show how much 
NAPQI was being produced during the same reaction.

In chemistry, amine (a-m-i-n-e ) or eimine ( e-i-m-i-n-e)  signifies an ammonium 
compound.   Plus, cyto (c-y-t-o) refers the cells, in chemistry vernacular. 

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15035644

Also in the test result chart is an extremely high level (literally off-the-chart) of  Sali-
cyluric acid.  It is proof of salicylate (aspirin) hypersensitivity.   In fact, a combination
of salicyluric acid and glucuronic acid forms salicyl acyl and phenolic glucuronide.
Moreover ... in quotations:

  "One possible origin of the type I hypersensitivity reaction is reaction of drugs such 
    as acetylsalicylic acid and its metabolites being complexed with human serum al-
    bumin.  Albumin, being transporting molecule abundant in blood plasma is able 
    to bind large array of ligands varying from small single carbon particles to long 
    hydrophobic tailed lipidic acids (e.g. myristic acid). 

  This non specificity is possible because of multi domain scaffold and large flexibility 
  of inter-domain loops, which results in serious reorientation of domains.  Hypothesis 
   that acetylsalicylic acid metabolites may play indirect role in activation of allergic re-
  action has been tested.    Binding of acetylsalicylic acid metabolites in intra-domain 
  space causes significant increase of liability of domains IIIA and IIIB. 

  One of metabolites, salicyluric acid, once is bound causes distortion and partial unfold-
  ing of helices in domains IA, IIB and IIIB. Changed are both directions and amplitude 
  of relative motions as well as intra-domain distances. In result albumin is able to cross-
  link of adjacent IgE receptors which subsequently starts allergic reaction.

 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19689242
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