But first a trip into Pennsylvania Dutch country for Janet’s battery. Off the turnpike and through farmland different from any I’ve seen in the U.S., because I’ve never been through…

Made it to the Great Basin, still solidly in reality. Yesterday evening I walked into two competing bars, on either side of the Oregon/Nevada state line, and didn’t see a…

For eight dollars a night, don’t expect more than simple pleasures. The kind of which are probably disappearing, as being too readily available to poor folk and people with kids…

What a difference a river makes. When I came up the stairs of the PATH station at 33rd St., I inhaled the smell of the streets, and felt like I…