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Travel Days: Asheville to Nashville to Summertown, Tennessee

Travel Days: Asheville to Nashville to Summertown, Tennessee

A series of bus rides and colorful characters and unlikely interactions, arriving finally at the middle of nowhere.

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North Carolina: Progress and Contrast

North Carolina: Progress and Contrast

Durham’s tobacco fields are disappearing under miles of roads, but its Southern manners and natural beauty hold strong.

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Friday Video: Train Ride Remix

A little train footage, a little glitch music: one year ago today in New Mexico.

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Not All Trains Are Alike

Not All Trains Are Alike

In which I begin to see a whole new part of America.

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How Polyface brought my oomph back

How Polyface brought my oomph back

The Universe kicks me down a spot of amazing luck: a personal visit with a brilliant agriculturalist who reminds me why I’m on this trip in the first place.

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