America is a beautiful thing…

 

I wander America on a Harley Davidson motorcycle, sleep on couches and in fifty-dollar motel rooms, eat at Waffle House and Main Street cafes, and have conversations with people whose politics I might not agree with. These are our stories.

Shelly

Shelly

I sat on a basalt stone in the warm sun and light breeze under a cerulean-blue sky in the New Mexico high desert and talked to Shelly and Ranger; Ranger the dog. Shelly’s from Minnesota, Spring Valley, and now she lives in New Mexico where she’s a campground host at a...

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The Mark of a Woman

The Mark of a Woman

September 1977, NATO Campaign Reforger, I was twenty-one years old and I hadn’t a shower in as many days. I sat in my Jeep in a cold rain, no doors, rainwater drizzling off the canvas top, a poncho over my lap and the engine running for heat. I was reading Critique of...

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Stephen Banks

I’m curious about people and I arrange words on pages so that I can read about them. If, while doing so, I can share my surprise and wonder with someone else, you, I will be delighted by your company and will have accomplished far more than I expected.

Steve and Jane