PoorRichardsExcuseAnyone familiar with air travel knows that we misname airports. We joined the wrong word with ‘port’. Air—a nebulous word that lacks gravitas—connotes nothing. Another “A” word better defines the dreadful experience of commercial flying. Angst: “a feeling of deep anxiety or dread, typically an unfocused one about the human condition….” Port: “a gate or […]
All things must pass, and so it is with western road trips. The road points east on Colorado’s Interstate 70 run through the mountains, one of the few stretches that avoids an Interstate’s dash-lined trance. Glenwood Canyon remains a marvel, a place of awe both for the snow-capped highlands, and the engineering that shoehorned the […]
The Road West: Can there be any other direction out of Missouri? The East has the history, the farms, the hardwood forests, the figurative and literal green. But the American West captures the nation’s imagination and momentum, its majesty and myth. More than a geographic place, the American West means the Great Wide Open. And […]
Vacations mean many things to many people: An escape from a harried life; a time to sit back, read and relax; private time with a loved one; an opportunity to sight-see America the beautiful. A western railroad trip offers all the above, time and temperament required. Known for delays, an Amtrak long ride appeals to […]
It was a sultry rush hour afternoon when the tow truck hooked and lifted the car’s crumbled front end. More than 10 years and 200,000 miles hauled off from the present to the past. It was my childhood, too. My father bought the car when I was five, and now less than a year […]