Fighting Commies, in the American Midwest
April 22-23, Abilene, KS to Independence, MO In Abilene, Kansas, we stopped by the Eisenhower Presidential Library to see its version of America. Not only was John curious to see what was there, as the former head of the JFK Presidential Library Foundation, but I...
The World’s Largest Czech Easter Egg … in Kansas!
April 21-22, 2018 Kansas We left the dinosaur tracks behind and headed toward Kansas’s Chisholm Trail, stopping at the historic watering holes of Hays and Abilene. This was truly the wild west 150 years ago, when gun-slinging cowboys herded 5 million Texas...Hot Springs and Dinosaurs
We recover in the hot springs, cross the Continental Divide, and stumble onto ancient dinosaur tracks.
Desperados and God’s Workshop
April 18-20, Area 54, Zion and Arches national parks At the Nevada casino where we had breakfast, we slipped past the all-night desperados, with cigarettes hanging from their lips, pumping away at the slot machines. We paused out front just long enough to read the...
Finding Your Way in a Hostile World
April 17-18: Death Valley and the Amargosa Opera House As we drove south on Rte 395 and east on 190 through the menacing landscape called Death Valley, we imagined the extraordinary hardships that pioneers, explorers, Mormons and gold rushers endured as they tried to...
Bears and Bowling Balls
April 15-16 We packed up Easy Rider in the 65-degree sunshine at Sanchez St. in the Castro, and savored a final cup of tea, overlooking the hidden garden of our neighbor. We bid goodbye to this fragrant bower with two resident turtle doves, a little green humming...
Digital Vampires: Can Artificial Intelligence Save Us?
The tech companies are data-sucking vampires who need to be controlled by humans
Heading Home to Boston
We’ve had an amazing three months in San Francisco and Berkeley, but now that the snows are melting back East, and the boys are swinging their bats, it’s time to head home. Easy Rider is tanned, rested and ready. We the drivers, not so much, thanks to a...