In the afternoon haze we left from Sturgis, out and onto 80 MPH interstate, and just that rapidly those stunning South Dakota hills were left behind me. A certain melancholy…
“This must be what heaven looks like.” “This looks like how you would describe heaven.” The land rolled out like an ocean all around and in the center as we…
“Do you want to go to Mt. Rushmore? I want to take a family roadtrip and I want little miss to see Mt. Rushmore.” “No. Mt. Rushmore is a defaced…
I had no idea, sitting outside of a gas station choking down their version of coffee and watching the sky kaleidoscope from nighttime purple into early sunrise hues of dust…
“This is Oklahoma?” The geographic diversity of this state never ceases to amaze, but it isn’t every day we lay eyes on a place so beautiful that infatuation is instantaneous.…
Have you ever woken up and thought “I’d like to see New Mexico today?” Or Kansas? Or Colorado? Or Texas? Or all four in the same day plus Oklahoma? Are…
From Roger Mills County in Oklahoma, you can see past the western horizon. The world just keeps going, on and on, no clear marker to dictate a fine vanishing point…
If you take the flat ride west across the northern section of Oklahoma along Highway 412, just before you reach the panhandle chop hills suddenly appear, low red dirt mesas…
Tradition is the deepest foothold of roots, the fragile often understated and overlooked fibrous roots that hold the whole system together. Long after the details of why are gone, generation…