Serendipity led us to the most famous place in Iowa. And they say there is a covered bridge four miles down the lane from here. I had planned a very…

Idaho is apparently a fake Shoshone name made up by a mining lobbyist. I went to sleep last night by the side of a highway in Wyoming imagining the word…

Have you heard the term ‘escape velocity’? It’s about 59 miles per hour. Or less, as Janet chugged up and over the Cascade Mountains yesterday. Everything I thought I might…

This month has been about two things… …1) surviving successive heatwaves, and 2) finding out what I can reasonably reach on foot. I have made some routes to and from…