This is Confidence
Mount Vernon, WA – When I travel alone, I stay in KOA Campgrounds. With anyone else I camp in the woods. My own degrees of safety hold that alone is […]
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The Beginning of a Road Trip South, Deep South
Charleston, SC to St. Marys, GA – Bailey, the young woman at the hostel, told me that there really weren’t a lot of restaurants serving local food in Charleston. There […]
The Price of Closeness
Sewanee, TN – I remembered what the ranger told me in Arkansas: “Everything here is poisonous.” I was trying to adapt to life in Tennessee but it seemed like everything […]
Japanese Beetles
Sewanee, TN – I take offense to insects mating in front of me in the garden. When I agreed to dog-sit for my cousins for the summer, they wrote that […]
Love Letter to Arkansas
Branson, MO to Hot Springs, AR – I expected the highway to worsen with every mile I drove into Arkansas. Everything people told me about the state was dismal. Why […]
The People You Meet
Bar Harbor, ME — No one tells you that you have sunscreen that’s not rubbed in when you travel alone. I pulled into the Bar Harbor, Maine KOA with a smear […]
Turn-Around’s Fairplay
Green River, UT to Denver, CO – On Wednesday, I woke up Colorado-bound. Moab tempted me but I wanted to make it to Denver by night. I was a little wistful […]
Drive through Nowhere
Boise, ID to Green River, UT – I call this section of the trip, The Drive through Nowhere #1. Outside of Boise, you follow I-86 and then drop down to Logan, […]
Revolve Around the Water
Boise, ID – Boise came next and I realized again that life in the desert revolves around water. The river runs through downtown and everyone who is anyone floats it. Little […]
The Durazno (Peach) Tree
Here’s what I will miss about South 6th Street. My neighbor, Benito, comes over to bring me cilantro seed. He sees me in the dirt with my barn boots on, […]
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