Roadside Picnic: Notes from the Spaceports

A travel diary that follows Jedi Tom, a romantic wanderer, artist, and accidental philosopher, tracing her journey through real spaceports, observatories, desert towns, and the strange intersections between cosmic ambition and human absurdity

Blending field notes, lyrical reflections, and humour, this blog captures the textures of place, people, and astronomical longing—whether at a Texas spaceport, a Moroccan observatory, old home of Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga or a cathedral moon exhibit in London

Part diary, part speculative ethnography, part spacefaring fairytale, Roadside Picnic explores what it means to dream seriously—of Mars, of love, of meaning—in a time when the stars are closer than ever and we still forget to look up

The project loosely connects to spaceportsfederation.org an endeavour exploring presence, traces, signals and fantasies in and around real spaceports