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 …
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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 …
Shoot to Learn
Little Rock At dusk we rode to an abandoned area miles from people and highways and placed targets on old logs nestled up against a large hillside berm. The uncle and brother-in-law had been a gun safety instructor in the National Guard, and carefully explained to each one of the novice shooters who had never fired …