Missoula Don’t get me wrong, the pluses of some time off-the-grid in the beauty and harshness of the great American west in Montana, also come with some minuses. A 1978 Airstream stands long and tall against the rocks on the mountainside, but is a constant, shiny target for every possible critter with four legs …
Category: Personal Writings
Memphis Airport and Woody Guthrie’s Revolutionary Mind
Missoula Out here off-the-grid with my grown son, we pass for each other’s adult supervision. We still keep an eye over our shoulders though. All of a sudden he grabbed a broom, and he swept the Airstream yesterday with the comment that his mother “wouldn’t have been happy looking at these floors.” It rained in …
No Postal Code Envy
Missoula Traveling around the world, you are not exactly off-the-grid, as much as you are out of touch or in a parallel universe. In India or Indonesia or Kenya the 8, 10, 12 hour time differences produce a funny “of the moment” focus on matters at hand, when you are on the day side …