This is a bigger part of the country than I remembered. I always had the idea the Great Plains took up most of the land area of the U.S., but…

About 28 uninterrupted hours on two planes, three trains, and one automobile, and I am in my room in France. At five o’clock on the morning of June 2nd, my…

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…

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…