

End of the Road, For Now
You, road I enter upon and look around. I believe you are not all that is there. I believe that much unseen is also there. --Walt...


Homeward Bound
I don’t know where I am going but I’m on my way. --Carl Sagan July 22 – Most of this day was spent driving from Reno, NV to Park City,...


Wishing it would never end, then rethinking
When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the...


To See The Sea Once Again
“Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.” ― Jack Kerouac July 19 – After a pleasant...


Big Blue Hole In The Ground
Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made...


US 12, Big White Mountain, the Ocean, and Beyond
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. -Edward Abbey from the preface to Desert...


US 12, Ada Ruth
July 13 – Left Kennewick, WA on another picture-perfect blue-sky morning and since U.S 12 blends with I-82 to north of Yakima where it...


Walla Walla of a Day
Photo: DeVoto Memorial Cedar Grove, Clearwater National Forest July 10 – Left Missoula on a slightly overcast morning that turned into a...


U.S. 12, Cities of Heat
Photo by Mary R. Ducker July 6 - After two days of triple-digit temps a little relief was hoped for as the drive continued west. Not so....


Crossing Dakotas
Up not so early on July 5th and back across the Missouri River on to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation for drive most of the way west...