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Monthly Archives: October 2011
Nebraska. Who knew?
Add the Cornhusker state to all the places in America that straight-as-an-arrow Interstate 80 can make look either (1) monotonous or (2) really monotonous. Because I’ve seen the state before from I-80. In the summertime. In sweltering I-need-a-shower-now humidity. All … Continue reading
What I think about (part one)
There’s an old Peanuts comic strip in which Charlie Brown and Snoopy are playing a game of checkers. Neither of them says anything throughout the strip, but in the first three panels you can see what Charlie Brown is thinking. … Continue reading
Nice postcard from home…
(1) Facebook.
Road to Rawlins (aka “Gates of Hell”)
In retrospect, my counter-clockwise course around America’s least populated state ran from the best to the worst of Wyoming (at least in my limited experience). First, the best, rated in ascending order: No. 3: The friendly little cowboy town of … Continue reading
The Buffalo and the Raven
To see Yellowstone, of course, is to see lots of bison, about 4,000 of which rim the park’s circular road system. Inevitably one or more of the giant ungulates will step onto the pavement and stop all traffic — which … Continue reading
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Your own private Yellowstone
If you can manage it, I was told, wait until the early fall to visit Yellowstone — after nearly all of the three million people who annually clog the country’s oldest national park have come and gone and the leaves … Continue reading
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What the barkeep said…
What the barkeep in the “Rib & Chop House” in Cody, Wyoming said after placing (what would later prove to be) the best tasting and most generously sized chicken-fried steak EVER in front of me on the bar … before … Continue reading
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Prairie interlude
Wednesday and Thursday we got pushed back down the mountains on the Beartooth Highway into Yellowstone — with its 11,000-foot pass — by the first real snowstorm of the season. And got pretty wet in the process. Dried off some … Continue reading
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Travels with Harley 