A minimalist archive, moments in time.
Charging stop on the long haul down I-5, at the big Supercharger next to the Best Western on Powers Drive in Kettleman City. Forty stalls, up to 250 kW, so no…
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Didn't go anywhere today, and that was the plan: a Saturday of study and sun, split between the desk and the pool. The study half was a stack pulled off the…
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A whole day without leaving the house, which suited everybody fine. Morning went to records — pulled the Hendrix Monterey album out, the Pink Floyd double,…
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Started the morning north of the parks, wading a rocky river and climbing a trail through sagebrush meadows before pointing the car south with the plan of…
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The weekend in Glacier came down mostly to the Going-to-the-Sun Road. We took it slow through the high section, pulling off wherever there was room — big…
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Missoula runs its best feature straight through the middle of town — the Clark Fork, which turns out to be the largest river in Montana by volume, about 360…
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A few days on the water in Coeur d'Alene, a long way from San Marcos. First evening we mostly just watched the lake from up high — the sun went down behind the…
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First night of a brief trip to Bend, and we walked downtown after dark, past the Des Chutes Historical Museum with its flags still up and one bright lamp over…
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Crater Lake was the point of the drive north into Oregon — the state's only national park, on the books since 1902, and neither of us had seen it. We came in…
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A wildfire column was already standing over the ridgeline before we even reached the park boundary — thick and white, climbing out of the trees past a fence…
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