Wednesday, September 23 Part I: Escape from Riggins Anticipation makes me wake up early, and on Wednesday I woke up a little after 5:00. Steve arrives today. After ten days alone I was very ready to have company, and I was very glad Steve was it. Steve and I …
Tuesday, September 22 I had never heard of the C’mon Inn chain before researching hotels in Montana, probably because I’d never been to Montana. Its name made me smile, and I thought its faux lodge decor would be an amusing contrast following the legitimately rustic Belton Chalet, so …
Monday, September 21 I would have liked to linger in Belton Chalet for as long as it would let me, but I’d reserved a spot on a nine o’clock Red Bus Tour of the west side of the park. Though in my sickish state I cared …
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Sunday, September 20 Earlier today (on the day of this writing) I was reading the AAA New York Car and Travel (C&T) magazine, a perk, if you could call it that, of AAA membership. It is of course not a good magazine, though it’s surprisingly …
Saturday, September 19 On many of the days I was alone I listened to chapters from Le Grand Meaulnes, a coming-of-age novel much beloved in France, that Andy had recorded for me. He’d started reading it to me during his leg of the trip, and I found it so …
Friday, September 18 Around two a.m. I woke up in a mild sweat, my throat sore. “Aw crap, here it comes,” I thought. I knew I would get sick at some point on the trip. I hadn’t been ill all year, so I had it …
Thursday, September 17 I woke with a Christmas Day flutter in my chest: in a few hours I was going to ride a horse for the first time. Everyone I told about my impending first-ever horse ride seemed, to me, less excited than they should be. …
Getting back into writing after being away from it for a while is like making yourself go to the gym after a spell of slackitude. You know it’ll be great once you get a routine going, but your brain keeps offering (often absurd) alternatives to initiating the routine. …
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I'm Beth. During September and October of 2015 I drove to all the states I'd never visited before, interviewing friends and strangers about their lives and feelings about America.
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