badlands

Prairie Winds

No one ever says journeys are perfect, without a few bumps in the road. Even vision quests. I didn’t have to wait long for the first bump. It was windy that first night in South Dakota. Like, crazy windy. My gas mileage that day had been abysmal, and I assumed it was due to the […]

And So It Begins

“Only that day dawns to which we are awake.”- Henry David ThoreauDespite all the dreaming, planning and packing, the trip never felt real, not until the day of departure. Saturday morning, September 24th, I loaded up my car, asked Ben to take my picture, and headed out.  I drove to a suburb in the Southwest metro […]