Monsooning at a Not-So-Glacier Pace
"We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one noble function of the time, move." Back to back special! After 3 days in Grand Teton and Yellowstone, we spent today mostly on the road...
“Yellow” From the Other Side…
“Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.” After grabbing an early...
Falling Into Jackson Hole
"I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams" I've long associated the term "Jackson Hole" with the longtime local burger joint my dad used to take me to in NYC. I never knew it was named after an actual...
From SD to WY: Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead
"We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess — across the night, eastward over the Plains, where somewhere an old man with white hair was probably...
Rushmore Into The Badlands
"Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain." After our night in Sioux Falls and adding 2 more to our RV yesterday, this morning filled up our tires with more...
The Pur-Sioux of Happyness
“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.” After an overnight in the outskirts of Madison, Wisconsin and picking up our new addition Dan Reesman, whom we had last seen when he traveled with...
Chicago-ing Back To Madison
“But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?” After our first day on the road that was filled with more the energy of...
Ohio Gozaimasu!
"All of life is a foreign country." Today ends nearly 5 months since my last monsoon, and 5 years since my last domestic road trip across America. Sometimes it takes a pandemic to put a life of travel on pause, but alas, even life has its rest...