Childress, Texas again. I pulled into Walmart, for extra-strength bug scrub. Walmart was the whole ball game for Childress, judging from all the sad and empty storefronts on Main Street—the is the brave new world of America. My normal windshield washer fluid barely got me through the buggy tropics of Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana….
Travel Tales – SOLITUDE, SNAKES, AND THE SEARCH FOR GOD AND SCRAMBLED EGGS
This is a typical view from a ‘primitive’ campground on Salmon Creek Lake, just outside the tiny, mostly abandoned crossroads town of Rogerson, Southern Idaho, a very lonely place. Primitive campgrounds are very spare– sometimes not even a level parking pad, usually a common water spigot and pit toilet. It never has electric. For these…
Travel Tales – ANOTHER THING TO WORRY ABOUT
Travel Tales – FINAL TRIP MAP DAVIDSON TO DENVER
Nights on the road: 1 Tues 5/23 Davidson, NC- Lebannon, TN Cedars of Lebanon SP 2 Wed 5/24 Mussel Shoals, AL Belden, MS Deer Run Eagle Ridge Trace State Park 3 Thu 5/25 Clarksdale, MS Natchez, MS NATCHEZ State Park 4 Fri5/26 L’Acadie Inn &RV Park Eunice, LA 5 Sat 5/27 Eunice, LA L’Acadie Inn…
Travel Tales – PINE RIDGE LAKOTA SIOUX RESERVATION
Drove today from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Pine Ridge Lakota Sioux Reservation, via the Bandlands Nat. Park. My van parked for the evening in a field behind a Lakota-owned restaurant and motel in the middle of the reservation. Prairie thunderstorm raging outside. I’m on high ground, but a ranger today…
Travel Tales – SINGLE MEN ON THE ROAD
Spent a few hours chatting with these guys at a campground outside Trinidad, CO, a small hurting city with the odd reputation in the 1960s as the Sex Change Capital of the world– yep, Google it. Trinidad hangs on as an old mining town, but not sure if a new coffee shop can make it…
Travel Tales – DEATH OF THE COWGIRL CAFE
Channing Texas pop. near zero- businesses O I’d traveled 2,400 miles of back-roads through the South in the past 12 days, and passed through dozens of small towns. They were in bad shape– most business closed, bushes growing through the sidewalks, homes with collapsed roofs, “gas stations” with no structure but a single rusted pump…
Travel Tales – GOODLETT, TEXAS THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE
Goodlett, Texas (pop. 138) is about 3 1/2 hrs. Northwest of Dallas on Hwy 287, 175 miles from the nearest Interstate and five hours from Amarillo, the closest town of more than200 people. The capitol of the middle of nowhere. I liked it. Had a small shade tree, and little store, laundromat, and shower. It…
Travel Tales – CAMPFIRE AT NIGHT
Playing around with my camera one night at a campsite on the Purgatoire River near Trinidad, Colorado, I was surprised to get this image.
Travel Tales – VAGABOND COUPLE IN TWINS FALLS, IDAHO
Met these vagabonds today at the Love’s in Twins Falls, Idaho just off I-84. They were on their way to Vermont for a cool summer and people. They made Christmas Wreaths for a few months in the fall, and made enough money to get through the year. They hitchiked, or frequently strangers offered them rides….