transportation A Rocket Measuring Contest Bezos and Musk may sound like railroad tycoons from the country’s founding, but Bezos and Musk are as interested in government largesse as were the empire builders of the Gilded Age.
personal stories In the Belly of the Whale: A down-on-his-luck wanderer searches for answers on the lonely coastline of the Golden Triangle That abandonment was the core of a grief I’d been trying to kill with alcohol for more than 30 years. Her leaving me stung more than her many other faults, such as attacking my father with a knife in my presence...
Travel On the Magic of the Transpecos "Being high-spirited boys, we mixed our outdoorsmanship with healthy quantities of alcohol and other substances, culminating in a close encounter with a Mexican vampire bat, which may or may not have happened."
Travel The Rushing Minutes "No one talks much about their past in Terlingua. The future is not of any interest, either. The present, though, has appeal."
Travel Train Song I love trains, and I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t. There seems a convergence of journeys and stories in every station and on each coach, regardless of where we are all bound.
