

It's Not All About Me
Dixie's remained strong and true even when I found myself pushing the needle too far across the Continental Divide. Now that we're headed...


Mother Nature Is The Boss Of Me
From fires licking at highway edges and blocking the sun with their bellowing soot, to record breaking heat waves, to thunder storms that...


Getting Out Of The Kitchen
After patiently breathing my way through several days that topped 100 degrees, and Portland, Oregon on the horizon set for an unthinkable...


Blues Traveler
I awoke in Idaho, spent the day in Oregon, and will lay my head down in Washington state. Then it's back to Idaho in the morning to...


I Need A Cigarette
Ascending Wyoming's Bighorn Mountains yesterday was a plodding affair, with Dixie admirably winding up, up, up until we reached the sky....


Peace Out, South Dakota
Arid as any desert, yet lush crops from horizon to horizon, a veritable vegetarian dreamland. Thank you for memories recalled, and...


A Day Of Avoidance
Today felt sort of like a video game, as Dixie and I dodged a multitude of highway pheasants and prairie dogs, the occasional turtle, and...


Only Alaska Remains
My landloper ways began two days after high school graduation, when my dear friend, Kathy, and I traversed the United States, plus a bit...


Unfettered Wandering
Just crossed another state line and began a glorious Minnesota morning. The father-son team applying a fresh coat of blue to the various...


Mystery Solved
She's on the Wisconsin shore of Lake Michigan.