Routes

Five entries from the long way round. Some became stories. Some were mostly lunch.

Pie, and nothing else, in Wyoming

A forty-mile detour for a slice of rhubarb pie. The coffee was $2. The second cup made leaving considerably harder.

Rhubarb pie and black coffee on a worn diner counter in warm window light

Where the pavement ends

Eleven miles of gravel, a cold lake, and mountains still wearing last winter. The odometer did very little. I approved.

A gravel road through pine forest beneath snow-covered mountain peaks

A night in the high desert

A tired motel, an enthusiastic ice machine, and dinner across the road. I booked one night and stayed for the quiet.

A weathered blank motel sign beside low rooms and an empty parking lot at dusk