<title>Across the U.S. in two minutes with Sara Lando

Among the nicer things that happened to my wife and me in 2008 was the visit from Italy of a newly married couple who were honeymooning their way across the U.S.

I had developed an on-line friendship with Sara Lando a couple years earlier when she and I both wrote on-line journals and she was studying photography at a school on the east coast. I tried then to get her to visit me in Ohio but time and finances prevented it. She returned to Italy and became a highly successful studio photographer. She and her work have been featured in several European magazines and already she's in demand as a lecturer on photography.

On her honeymoon trip that began on the West Coast and ended on the East Coast, she and her husband, Alessandro Locatelli, stopped in Newark for a day and half and we entertained them as best we could, though one of those days was Sunday and many of the places I wanted to show them were closed.

If you like to look at photos, take a look at Sara's website, named MooseRental at this link.

Her visit was in May but it was only recently Sara published an on-line video about the trip. Hang on to your hat when you watch because you're going to see 1,612 images in two minutes. Among them will be the Indian dancers that performed during the opening ceremonies of the museum at Newark Earthworks, the Alan Cottrill Gallery in Zanesville, a display at The Works, and me standing in front of the Longeberger basket building with a paper sack over my head.