New Story: Bragging Rights
I wanted that scar, damn it. I wanted to be able to strip my sleeve up to my shoulder when school got back and wave that contused, jagged line in […]
Category Archives: roadtrip
Oops, I Did it Again
I know, I know, the blog’s been quiet for almost a month. Not that I haven’t been doing things – the problem is that I’ve been doing too many of […]
Okay – Next?
Raise your hand if you’re tired of hearing me whine about “That Damned Novel.” About how I can’t do this or that, or am slow to reply because I’m […]
New Story: Jaguar
The man on the bus said he had to tell me. I figured he just had to tell anyone who would listen. And I figured that, as the only gringo […]
End of the Road
“Well, I thought the highway loved me, but she beat me like a drum,” -Jason Isbell
I’m on the last leg of over 24 hours on airplanes, coming back from a month and a half […]
The Road to El Calafate
About this time last night, I was walking into town from the ship, guitar over my shoulder, eagerly anticipating my first chance to lie down on something that didn’t spend […]
So Close…
“The sweet smell of the land blew out to us on a warm wind, a smell of sand verbena and grass and mangrove. It is so quickly forgotten, this land […]
Return from the Sea
The sea is not, I think, something for those who regard the world in terms of conquest. A mountain can be conquered: Zebulon Pike’s “unclimbable peak” is now saddled with […]
Mission Accomplished
It took the away team three excursions out to the buoy, jury-rigging scavenged electronics into place under the hatch of a Volkswagen-sized pod bobbing in the the open ocean, but […]
Christmas Ahead of a Following Sea
Captain turned the ship around day before last. The storm was coming at us from the southwest, so rather than sit in place and ride it out, we’d pressed our […]
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