Booking Road Notes: Back to Kansas
Watertower of Du Bois, Nebraska This past Monday, I took another delivery for my warehouse landlord, again sneaking into Kansas long enough to say I was there, this time to Seneca. I went off-the most...
View ArticleNowhere to Run
Out Here You couldn’t make a show like 24 in the western plains. Not just because terrorist plotting against Ainsworth, Nebraska, or Gillette, Wyoming would make no sense, but the country west of...
View ArticleThe Photo that’s Just So Important
Originally, I had tried to think of something to write about a human flaw, just so I could use the photo below in a post. But I struck out, so here it is. Just the photo. Hometown Store I photographed...
View ArticleRoad Notes: Far From Home
Oh, those 6 A.M starts. In a filter no less. Even on familiar roads, I set a personal record, hitting over 15 fields in five days. There were plenty of Subway sandwiches, coffees, lunches in the truck,...
View ArticleRoad Notes: Off the Grid in Western Kentucky/Tennessee
Enter Here Last week I went to Tennessee. I was disappointed when I started passing a bunch of cornfields and the region started to look like Nebraska. Seriously though it was a great break from my...
View ArticleEnd of the Season
It’s that time of year again. The end. The last time I go to certain fields before they are harvested. Almost in The time our family visits Lake Michigan. Shoreline And the time of year my writer’s...
View ArticlePretty Grain Tower in Northwest Iowa
Full The grain tower above is somewhere in northwest Iowa, on the diagonal highway that runs from Storm Lake to the I-29-US Highway 30 interchange. It’s backlight because I drove past that area in the...
View ArticlePodcast Life
Face the Future. I played the voices and speeches in my ear, and left them on for hours. When I turned them off, my thoughts had a lot to say to me. Podcasts are just personal time radio, or a...
View ArticleTwisted Streets
Trucked Large bodies of water always mess up a large city’s traffic, and make their streets run in odd directions. Above is one of the few streets that come out from Wisconsin‘s state capital and runs...
View ArticleCheap Motels
Inn For the NightI’ve stayed in my share of crappy motels. Sometimes, I did so out of necessity, as I did when I visited Omro, Wisconsin to harvest corn samples in the summer of 2012 and the home-run...
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