Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part X & Final)… Writing is a solitary event. It draws from within to expel to without. It causes reflection and creates a mystical sense of discovery. As I departed for…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part IX)…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part IX)… The Illinois state capital of Springfield is a place unto its own. It emits a time of another era, but even more so, it casts a spell. Every street…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring the American West (Part VIII)…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part VIII)… Crossing the Missouri River at Omaha one lands at Council Bluffs, Iowa. It’s there one turns south onto Interstate 29 and heads for the green farms of Missouri. As…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part VII)…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part VII)… Lincoln, Nebraska is bigger than I thought. With almost 300,000 people, one drives through expansive suburban areas before arriving downtown. This I discovered the next morning as I headed…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring the American West (Part VI)…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part VI)… As the Denver skyline faded to a distant silhouette in the rear-view mirror, the broad expanse of eastern Colorado opened. It was a reminder of what was to come…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part V)…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part V)… Onward I drove, onward through the American West. Six and a half hours lay ahead as I traversed Interstate 80 eastbound through southern Wyoming. I headed towards Cheyenne where…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part IV)…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part IV)… Westwards and southwards of the Yellowstone Continental Divide lays the town of Idaho Falls on the banks of the Snake River. Arriving on a quiet Friday evening, the downtown…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring the American West (Part III)…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part III)… “The Equal Rights” State, better known as Wyoming, is a mystery unto itself. From the State Capitol Cheyenne in the southeast to Yellowstone National Park in the northwest, the…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part II)…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part II)… “Under God the People Rule” is South Dakota’s state motto and it felt so as I traversed its eastern border with endless expanse before me. For to be in…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part I)…
Into The Great Wide Open: Touring The American West (Part I)… There’s something about wide open spaces with limitless horizons that draws in the soul. It pounds at the heart and leaves an inspiring breath to depart the body. At…