About a week into the trip and still in the state of California. The smart money says we better get out of here before the state officially secedes by printing its own currency. If you think IOU’s can’t be considered…
Category: From the Road
On the Road Again
We have departed from Berkeley for our 6-week, 16-state tour of eastward travel. The last week has been filled with incredibly busy days and nights of packing, shipping, cleaning, and saying goodbye. Sometimes there just isn’t enough time (or a…
Out Here in the Fields
There is a quiet communion about the world as it is meant to be. I write this while sitting in a pasture, llamas in the distance, gentle winds overwhelming the wheaty grasses of the Central Valley of California. Not connected…
Bubbles
We could live beside the ocean leave them far behind swim out past the breakers watch the world die. -Everclear, “Santa Monica” Russ and I went down (up? over? out? – I have no sense of direction in LA) to…
I Love LA
I could never imagine living in Southern California, but this region of the world has pretty much always served the same role for me. It’s basically the exact role in my life that it pitches to everyone everywhere at all…
620!
Just wanted to wish everyone a Merry Christmas (for those interested in such) and an even Merrier Christmas Eve, which we all know (at least in New Mexico) is the real holiday. There is some debate from past years as…
High School Never Ends
“Then when you graduate You take a look around and you say “Hey wait!” This is the same as where I just came from I thought it was over, aw that’s just great. … Seen it all before I want…
Take Me Away, Country Roads (or: If On a September Eleventh a Traveler)
It is morning in America. Early morning here, just past six on a Friday morning. I’d normally be just stirring, an hour’s timezone west, wondering what the last day of the week was about to bring at work, wondering if…
An Hour After the End
“I suppose you are wondering why you are here.” Seven billion souls shuffling their feet, which many at once notice are not exactly feet while somehow failing to not be feet. Even those who did not have feet just moments…
Cinderella Sweeping Up
“Grandpa, tell me what it was like back in the old country before the fall.” “Well, what do you want to know?” “I dunno. What was it like just before the fall? Did anyone know what was about to happen.”…