And Elsewhere!

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…

Dear Friends and Family, And so my travels continued. I left Grand Teton and Jackson Hole going east by southeast, once again over the continental divide and into the heights of the Wind River Range. I think most people have a negative perception of Wyoming as a deeply boring and empty state. If you’ve been…

Dear Friends and Family? How do you leave heaven? Yes, I am asking again; I got a bit bleary-eyed while reminiscing about Lake Solitude in the last post, so making this one helps me gather my thoughts and regather my composure. I don’t have much narrative structure for the last couple photos and memories I…

Dear Friends and Family, How do you leave heaven? I’m not asking rhetorically. Grand Teton is heaven. I don’t mean “Grand Teton is like heaven.” I don’t mean “Grand Teton is heaven to me.” Simile is not enough; analogy is not enough. I mean “Grand Teton is heaven.” I have been home in Virginia for…