The Other Things Blacktop: Kicking off a Kickstarter project 10 Mar 201416 Dec 2014 UPDATE: Blacktop: Driving Across America is now available for purchase. When I was in Grade 4, I had a poem published in a school-board chapbook. I was thrilled. But what…
Summer The mystery of The Reclining Lady of Iowa City 24 Feb 201417 Mar 2014 OAKLAND CEMETERY, Iowa City—What do you see in her? I am amazed at how many of you are drawn to this photograph of The Reclining Lady with her soft white…
Summer… Road Trip 2013: How’d we do that? (Part II) 27 Jan 20149 Mar 2014 The Vehicle Joe the Truck is 10 years old. When we left on Road Trip 2013, he had 165,000 kilometres on him. How old your car is should not matter.…
Summer… Road Trip 2013: How’d we do that? (Part I) 11 Sep 20139 Mar 2014 Start with an amazing teenager. I know yours is perfect and wonderful – but can he handle six hours in a car with a toddler begging for his attention? I’m…
Summer Interstate system ‘firsts’ are entirely subjective 10 Sep 201316 Nov 2013 INTERSTATE I80, Kan. – Near the end of an epic month-long road trip, which would span 19 states and two provinces, trusty Joe the truck rolled along what is billed…
Summer The end of Kansas? The end of the world? 28 Aug 201313 Oct 2013 SMOKY HILLS, Kan. – “The hell is that?” It was after dark in Kansas, just me and truckers on the road, as I like it. Besides a short and incredible…
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