As I traveled through El Paso and western Texas, I listened to the Old 97s’ West Texas Teardrops, as well as the rest of that album. The song is about a man who believes he might have been happy in El Paso. After seeing El Paso, I think he might be better off lost in west [...]
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Lost in Kansas Leave a comment
When I left for Kansas, I had a few places in mind to visit, just off of I-70. I was previously unaware that there is so much to see in Kansas. Most of it is along US Route 56, which was unfortunately too far out of my way. I had really wanted to see the [...]
An Indiana Sunset Leave a comment
It was so pretty I couldn’t resist photographing it. Outside my window the sunset made a humid summer night pink, yellow and blue at different times. If you had been here, you would have heard locusts and smelled hay and grass. The air was very still and there was next to no one else around, [...]
Ohio’s and Indiana’s Big Skies Leave a comment
In Western Ohio the sky starts to open up as you approach the Great Plains. In Indiana it opens more. There you’ll start to see the corn fields for which the midwest is famous, and, on occasion, you’ll pass a cow farm or two. But it’s mainly corn. In the summer time during the day, [...]
