Category Archives: USA 2008
Ninety-Three
At 5:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, after ninety-three days on the road and eleven-thousand fifty miles overland I glimpsed the Pacific Ocean from Interstate 5 between San Juan Capistrano and San Clemente, California. I don’t know how the internet feels. … Continue reading
Eighty-Three
OK. No more offroad trips in search of ghosted ghost towns. From now on I am only sticking to government-approved, tourist friendly ghost towns. I drive a Camry for chrissakes. I shouldn’t be taking my poor two-wheel drive, four cylinder … Continue reading
Eighty-Two
Mesa, AZ There’s something wrong when you’re in a major United States city and manage to put nearly 200 miles under your belt in one day just looking around town. All I did was go downtown to see the State … Continue reading
Eighty-One
Mesa, AZ I saw a guy so fat he had to sit sideways in the passenger seat to avoid interfering with the steering. I was driving at the time. Had to struggle to keep from running off the road. There … Continue reading
Eighty
Phoenix, AZ Baseball is the perfect sport. It starts in the spring, when the leaves turn green and the entire planet comes out of hibernation. It ends when things go back to sleep. It is inextricably intertwined with the history … Continue reading