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…

Serendipity, or subconscious guidance? I had a resigned feeling about the chore of recrossing South Dakota. But staring at the map, I saw De Smet, and “suddenly remembered” it was…

Heading back north now, I wanted to linger in the countryside a bit before it began to be urbanized. I had about 390 miles to go to my next hotel,…

It’s the little things that remind us who we are. Yesterday was my day to explore Bourges, population 64,000, and I started out nice and early. First, since I’d learned…