USA

The Three Flags Highway (US Hwy 395) stretches 1300 mi. (2100 km.) virtually from the Canada border south, along the backbone of the USA’s western mountains nearly touching the Mexico frontier.  It must surely be one of the most sweeping and storied stretches of road in America while escaping almost entirely the monotony of her […]

Though all of us have some acquaintance with career meltdown, Dave ‘the Pie Guy’ Hulett, set the standard for humiliation the day he dropped a conifer on some high-tension power lines not far from the headwaters of the Mississippi. He might well have assumed that his prospects had been sold down Ol’ Man River, as […]

The threat of backseat hypoglycemia pulled us off a highway to the coast and into the town of Goldsboro, North Carolina.  Pizza ordered, we began to size up the Flying Shamrock Irish Pub, taking stock of the front windows full of gaudy sports trophies, and the Thursday night procession of folk walking by with cue […]

You could do worse than to tiptoe into Michigan by the back door of the Upper Penninsula (UP), afloat as it is in a lake-world gift of ancient glaciers.  So near is the time of the Ojibwa and Menominee that the call of a wild north – the loons, the deer and rush of streams […]

She calls herself Trish, though, on reflection, that may well have been a gesture toward drowsy travelers in the Florida motel where she tidies up the breakfast counter and replenishes coffee urns.  She moves among the tables deftly clearing away clutter and resetting furniture.  As the room falls silent, she asks us, the last of […]

A brake job you can no longer ignore might well take you to a part of town that is otherwise drive-through country.  Just so, the New Year has led me at the crack of dawn to a garage beside a once trendy mall, now wintered by the caprice of fashion and market.  I dropped off […]

Among the Iroquois tribes of eastern North America a story is told about a time of internal enmity – and of stumbling into peace through the innocence of a little child.  During this outbreak of bloodshed, one of the tribes laid plans to wreak vengeance on their rivals.  To that end they sent out spies […]

A well-known healer in West Africa was visited one day by a tortured soul haunted by a dream of turmoil in the spirit world.  Having heard a full account of these experiences, the healer responded: This is the wrong dream.  Now you must return home and dream a dream of goodness and harmony.  Happily, this […]