Tag Archives: Effingham

Day 30 and beyond: Gimme a break

I’d been on the road for a month, and it was the day before my grandmother’s birth­day, so I was in a hurry to get home. I drove to Northwest Coffee and picked up some beans for home and a … Continue read­ing

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Day 1: Gateway To The West

The weather was more Indiana-in-August-like than it had been in weeks, the kind of weather in which no mat­ter how high the A/C is set, you’re still clammy. I didn’t get as early a start today as I’d have liked, … Continue read­ing

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