I’ve been calling this the “Finding Home Tour,” but that’s bullshit. (Hart Mountain Antelope Wildlife Refuge, Oregon) You don’t ‘find home’, you ‘make a home’. You may find yourself in a location that you chose, or maybe you ended up there because you followed someone 15 years ago, or it was where you went to college and you stayed, maybe you live in your hometown, or you got a job offer, or maybe you closed your eyes and put your…
(ice storm. Jan 2017. Carbondale, Illinois) A dear friend of mine in Carbondale who works in hospice and I were talking about the nature of loneliness. I find it somewhat ironic that I have felt far less lonely since I took off on this road trip alone than my last two years in Arizona. She talked about the loneliness of dying people and how nothing external seems to help someone who has that particular heartache. She told me about a…
Left Reno late – around 9:30am or later. Shoe Trees seem to be a thing. This is the second one I’ve seen. Headed towards Lassen Volcanic National Park, but veered over to Burney Falls instead. The Ranger took my eight bucks to see the Falls, but when I balked at the $30 campground fee he recommended a forest service road for me. I made a little video of the Falls falling. I like the sound. The Ranger took my money,…