Dear Friends and Family, So the next couple days in the road trip don’t have much of a narrative, and I am mighty tired this week, and saving up my writing energy for the last couple of posts about the road trip. The trip was well and nearing its end by this point; it was…

Dear Friends and Family, Have you wondered why this website is actually called Skillagalee.com? Well, wonder no longer, as I finally reveal this great mystery to you! I left the Porkies to a cacophony of wild turkeys and made east again for the bridge. I was in familiar territory again as I drove down US-2,…

Dear Friends and Family, The journey continues! Thanks again for camping with me buddy, I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did 🙂 Andrew and I split up after a couple days, as he had to return downstate while I continued meandering west across the Upper Peninsula. Ore docks in Marquette, from which…

Dear Friends and Family, Oh! Wait some of you are here! Welcome, my audience 🙂 I left western Minnesota around the 8th or 9th of August, and beat feet pretty quickly back to Michigan. Way back when this road trip started, I had planned to continue westward into the UP, but I was very tired…

Dear Friends and Family, *Siiiiip* *kch-aaaahhh* Yup, I am definitely back in the midwest. As if drinking a beer with a name as ubiquitous as “Grain Belt” wouldn’t tell you, I have returned to the endless deciduous forests of the east, to my ancestral homeland. Well, it’s not exactly my homeland: This is Lincoln County,…

Dear Friends and Family, This is the end of the west. This photo is taken at this exact spot (39°42’36.6″N 105°17’41.0″W) on the Mt. Vernon Road overpass of I-70 and US-40, 16 miles west of downtown Denver. This is the view looking west. This is the view looking at all of the west, at all…

Dear friends and family, Well I blew right past my 21 January deadline, huh? Ah well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ So the adventures continue! With one more dip into the mountain west: Well, not exactly your normal mountains. These are the 700’+ dunes of Great Sand Dunes National Park. They’re like mountains, just made of sand 🙂 And…

Dear Friends and Family, The blog is back! Sorry for the delay, I got busy over the holidays and with the job and stuff. Things are going well, and I still fully intend to finish the blog. I spent 142 days on the road in total and it only seems fair to try and complete…

Dear Friends and Family, There is one more corner of Wyoming that is well off the beaten path and well worth seeing: The Bighorn Mountains. The Bighorns are an isolated mountain range in northern Wyoming, southwest of Sheridan. I know that doesn’t really help place it in anyone’s mind, but the interesting thing about the…

Dear Friends and Family, SSSSNNNNRRRRRKKKKK SSSSSSSSNNNNNNNRRRRRKKKKK-UUHHH-HUUUUHH HUH??? Where the hell am I??? In the latest step in my rambles across America, I arrive in arguably the most obscure location of the entire trip: Petroleum County, Montana. Dear reader, your question is heard loud and clear: what the hell am I doing here? Well, it’s a…