Bison Jammed
A complete recap of our adventures in the Black Hills, Wyoming, and Denver is coming (eventually). But for now, here’s a brief traffic report from Custer State Park in South Dakota.
Archive of entries posted on August 2017
Michelangelos, Missiles, and Mauvaises Terres
So far, South Dakota is pretty great. I mean, sure, there’s a lot of nothing here. Grassy prairies stretching as far as the eye can see, without even a tree or ramshackle old barn to break the horizon between land and sky. But we’ve also discovered a lot of something here… and some of that …
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Iowa: The Smash Hits
For the part of this trip when we weren’t supposed to be doing much, we sure did a lot. We spent a full week in Iowa, and I do mean a full week. Honestly, at this point I can’t even remember what happened when—so rather than trying to sum it all up chronologically (in what …
Santa Fe to Des Moines, via Charlottesville
On the afternoon that a bunch of white supremacist idiots marched in Virginia and murdered a young woman named Heather Heyer, I found myself crossing from New Mexico into Oklahoma, the state where a smaller group of white supremacist idiots killed 168 people in 1995. From a forensic perspective, there’s no direct connection between these …
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