Monthly Archives: July 2012

becoming sun-baked human ziti and trying to decide where to go next.  i’d been nonsensically crisscrossing idaho, from Idaho Falls west to boise then back east to Mountain Home.  do i head north to montana?  i already came from west. … Continue reading →

The mountains have taught me things Last night wind picked up late and woke me with groans through the canyon Spits of rain on my pitter pattered tarp I huddled through the night and overslept past dawn  Sunrise gentle, rabid storms, … Continue reading →

There is a problem with this blog. It has become stale and unoriginal.  How many more hitchhiking is great people are good food is free stories can I really churn out?  Is any of this still interesting or poignant?  Why … Continue reading →

Wildfires rage across Colorado.  The air is heavy with the scent of campfire.  Colors of dusk, filtered through smoke, bleed into the horizon: the fiery moon rises through silver wisps of cloud.  Many pray for rain; one afternoon a storm … Continue reading →

BEGIN WHERE YOU ARE.  As the skies cleared, I headed back out to the rain-soaked ramp.  It wasn’t long before an RV nosed into the shoulder.  I hopped in next to Scott, an ultra-marathon runner who is currently attempting to … Continue reading →

I caught a ride out from under Dead Bird Bridge with an old man named Dave who wore a cowboy hat and drove a Mustang through the stark insane rolling desert emptiness that was scattered with puddles of tree and … Continue reading →

I rose at first light as the blush of sunrise drenched a big clear sky.  When I went into the gas station to wash up, the attendant recognized me from last night.  “Where are you headed, anyway?” she asked me.  … Continue reading →