On Sunday it will have been one year since Katie and I were married. It has been the best year of my life. I remember the day itself as typical October. Overcast and damp, but with just a little rain. It was windy and chilly but everything was so exciting and happy that it didn’t [...]
“I could walk into the sea…”
October 11, 2005
I’m in Miami for a few days for work. Hollywood, to be exact, but it’s all the same strip of beach. I don’t travel for work very much, usually I enjoy it a little. This time I was belly-aching before the trip about having to leave Minnesota during my favorite time of the year to [...]
The Road as a River
September 16, 2005
When you’re driving through the night your eyes start playing tricks on you. Then your mind does. Then it’s time to switch drivers. I had gotten us all the way to eastern Montana and now the reflectors along the freeway were beginning to streak across my vision and sometimes I couldn’t remember where we were. [...]
“I Had Breakfast With my Shadow”
September 12, 2005
I had an unpleasant feeling in my gut right before leaving on the trip. I try to listen to my intuition and the rhythms of the world around me when I make certain decisions, and everything seemed to be telling me that heading out for nine days of driving, camping and fishing wasn’t right. Only [...]
Gone Fishin’
September 2, 2005
“The Road goes ever on and on, Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say.” ~ Bilbo Baggins, The [...]
Now what about my dynamite?
August 31, 2005
I’m getting ready for a big road trip. Leaving Friday. I’m nervous. A lot of it feels wrong right now. I’ve learned that there always comes a point when all the signs leading up to a journey seem to say “warning! warning!” and you have to ride that out. There’s no reasoning with it. When [...]