Take 50

Today would have been Tracy's 60th birthday had cancer not intervened. Our plan was to move to Denver just before it all went sideways. ...

So perhaps I was a little bit hasty with the directionality thing. After all, in my last eastward transit of Utah, about hall of it was...

You wouldn't think, necessarily, that it would matter what direction you travel a road, the scenery would be the same. Turns out, that's...

I've visited three sites now where I deposited Tracys ashes, and the rains have done their work. No trace of Tracy. There's some relief...

You read that right: this is my third transit of the CA to CO section of US-50. To celebrate, mother nature gave me a rainbow over Lake...

I've been in Colorado a couple weeks now, settling in. It's s lovely fall day and my brother and I spent it biking along Cherry Creek in...

Rawlins Cemetery is where the fictional Les McGhee is laid to rest. It's exactly as I pictured it with cottonwoods and willows all over....

Rawlins looks like any small midwest town, only with western scrub dotting the landscape, and a relentless 25 mile an hour wind that...

Of all the states, and I've been through all of them, Wyoming seems to have more train work than any other. It's constant and in all...

I usually try to get "crap" out of my landscape pictures, but sometimes it actually makes the picture. Case in point, the image below. As...

About six years ago while I was writing McGhee in the Gloaming, I had my protagonist stop in a town in Utah named Toole (pronounced Too -...

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East of Battle Mountain on I-80 there's a thick blanket of smoke from the California fires. Once again goodbye California.

Sometimes a shell is just a shell. Sometimes it's a symbol. Sometimes, it's a reminder. Sometimes a portent. But every time, it is more...

I'll be having my last moments tomorrow morning in a house that had been my home for 27 years. I've spent the last three months removing...

I wrote at least 80% of McGhee in the Gloaming sitting in this rocking chair in this exact spot. To date, it has been the highlight of my...

Traveling east from El Dorado Hills on US-50 one climbs a large hill before descending into the valley. As one crests that saddle they...

What a crazy place this is: sprawling over the face of an entire strip mall, this single store contains endless bounties of Asian and...

Dos Coyotes in Folsom, California, has performed salad alchemy with its Yucatan Chicken Salad. It's warm (black beans) and cold...