I woke up early this morning. 5:45ish. Last night I had a restless sleep, anticipating a fairly long day on the road from Salt Lake City to Lake Tahoe. My […]
Kelli: “I’m going to be moving out of the country and I’d like to put in a notice for my credit cards.” Woman with Wells Fargo: “OK. No problem. Where […]
Let me try to get this straight … I’m driving west from VT to Cali, and my close friend Colby is driving east from Cali to Maine. We ended up […]
I haven’t seen Matty or Summer in about eight years−since we worked on the train together in Alaska. After I arrived at their home, they took me on a quick […]
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Before Kelli and I first drove East three years ago, I had daydreamed about parking the car in nowhere Wyoming, and taking a long road ride to Devils Tower. We […]
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Where’s Willy Nelson when you need him? View Larger Map I’m at point “C” on this map right now, sitting at a picnic bench as the sun sets over a […]
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From Austin to Minneapolis it’s been a few precious weeks. Click on any image to zoom, give it a few seconds to load, then use your arrow keys or click […]
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This was a post that got lost in the shuffle. I meant to post it when I was in Houston, but I got sidetracked by the Angolan Consulate and a […]
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“Everything’s bigger ‘n Texas.” Before arriving in Houston, I had made a silent decision not to use that stereotypical expression. Within hours of being here—and after getting a black bean […]
View Larger Map I was originally going to call this post “Halfway There” but then it occurred to me that a headline like that was a little too close to […]