North Dakota, Bust and Boom

North Dakota was one of the states I was looking forward to traveling through, not only because I’d never been there, but it seemed to fit my theme of going to the more neglected, low population regions of our country.  And fittingly so, I entered it with so little...

Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Glances

When I dropped off Kim at MSP airport to fly back to Asheville, thus began my road trip as I had originally conceived it:  me and El Guapo across the open highway, unfettered, unscheduled, sniffing out America; living out of and sleeping inside of my car.  It was also...

On, Wisconsin! On, Wisconsin!

The nudge to do an extended cross country road trip began well over a year ago.  I talked a lot about the “idea” of it, but was never quite committed to it enough to firmly take it from the idea realm to the reality realm.  I intended to do it summer a year ago, but...