Hawthorns. Yep, they hurt. I travel for the same reasons I eventually come home. This is often difficult to explain to people who eithe...

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. -- Winston Churchill When I rolled into River...

We make trials of ourselves and invite men and women to hear - Walt Whitman It ain't what they call you, it's what you answer to. - ...

Truckin', I'm a goin home. Whoa whoa baby, back where I belong, Back home, sit down and patch my bones, and get back truckin' on...

(transcribed from travel journal) Cool morning in Minnesota, hot cup of coffee, cigar lit the hum of the central air like white noise, simul...

Live in the nowhere that you came from even though you have an address here. - Rumi Ask the dust on the road!. -John Fante After buying a $1...

I refuse to quote the First Amendment because no document can grant me what is mine already. - Quote from Mick's Travel Journal, Tempe, ...

"I'm a spoiled bitch" resonates in any language. - Note from Mick's Travel Journal (San Francisco) Why do one-eyed Nazis a...

Part 1 HERE [I'm in transit, on a 15 hour burn to Phoenix. The bus, as far as L.A. anyway, is the first bus outfitted with electric outl...

2012 It was a simple yet elegant plan. My intention was to find the City Lights Bookstore, bask in the literary mecca of any and everyone wh...

Manage Your Wildlife: Wear Fur -- (billboard 25 miles from Wall, South Dakota) "The only reason Gary Snyder ate that shit was because K...

(For Liz Frazier, since she asked) From the sundry cast of supporting characters that will tell you all you need to know about Minneapolis.....

It's all one long story, and we're all in it. And the best we can hope for is that it's well told. - Utah Phillips It is one of ...