The Salton Sea is always described as a monumental engineer’s mistake. Over a hundred years ago, somebody accidentally diverted all of the Colorado River into a dry basin in California.…

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…

I woke up this morning in a soft bed in the guest room of a long-lost fourth cousin. While in Oregon, about two years ago, a man I’d never heard…