September 14, 2003
Six days on the Road

Too late at night, too long on the road. But my son Mick and I are in Eugene, Oregon, at the home of friends, after driving across the country with Mick's possessions in a 10-year old van. Next stop: Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. After an overnight in Bigfoot country.

It took days for my eyesight to get accustomed to the horizon. The wide spaces, some of it stark, dry and empty. The peaks: Black Hills, Absaroka, Cascades. The ancestors: elk, bald eagle, bison, mule deer. Rigby, Idaho: home of Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television. Geysers, lava flows, eroded spires.

Next, the last leg. From Ken Kesey to John Muir to Steve Jobs. And the best school of microbiology and immunology in the world. Mick and Tina: fly on, kids!

Posted by Dave at September 14, 2003 04:14 AM