34,500 Miles • A Sea of Faces
When I was nine or ten years old, my favorite uncle was coming for a visit. On the day he…
Category: weird and unusual
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…
26,052 Miles • New Mexico’s Grassland
Did you know that New Mexico has grasslands? There is a small bit of northeastern New Mexico called the Kiowa…
20,856 Miles • Welcome to California
Heading south from Crater Lake, I crossed the border into California. Normally I don’t write the sentence, “I crossed the…