32,478 Miles • Garden of the Gods
Driving through southern Indiana and into southern Illinois, I found: Street name: Hardscrabble Road Town name: Santa Claus, Indiana –…
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32,226 Miles • On Lincoln and Fear of a Good Future
Just outside of English, Indiana, I found a roadside spring thanks to findaspring.com and filled up my tanks with water…
28,944 Miles • Shaker Simplicity
Heading northwest from Hartford toward New York and the Adirondacks, I found some lovely mountainous roads along a small river…
28,858 Miles • Noah Webster
Two years ago, I visited Noah Webster’s birthplace in Hartford, Connecticut, and even went into the building, but was put…
28,288 Miles • A Short Detour into the French Revolution
In the spring of 1776, an embittered France, angry and smarting from losing its North American colonies to Britain in…
27,701 Miles • Reflections on Overworking, from Kansas to Ohio
At a roadside picnic area in Kansas, this tragedy of line markings begged the question, what happened here? Was the…
19,989 Miles • Oregon
I will forever associate Oregon with onions. I’ll think of other things, too, when I think of Oregon, but from…
19,316 Miles • A Bit of Utah and Idaho
As I crossed the state line from Wyoming into Utah, it immediately got windy, hot, and smoky again. There were…
15,126 Miles • A Powwow of Consequence
You’ve probably heard the observation by Robert Ingersoll that, “In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are…
14,175 Miles • The Last Stand of the Tallgrass Prairie
My ratio of nights parked at a Walmart or similar to nights camped in a nature setting is pretty horrific…