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Assignment: Ukiah – I Conquer Black Bart Trail

I plowed on. The cautious (sane) part of me whispered, told me to turn around, go back! back! but I pressed ever east, across the dusty washboard trail, searching the skies for the Drinkin’ Gourd,…

What Made America Great?

We are now experiencing a paroxysm of efforts to Make America Great … Again. This should raise questions in every American mind: which greatness are we hoping to re-create? How was that greatness initially achieved?…

Oregon’s Vertigo Inducing Steens Mountains

In my more than seven decades of life I have traveled to places weird and unusual, but never did a view make me light-headed and dizzy, but the Steens Mountains East Rim Viewpoint did that…

A Country For Old Men

Giacometti’s Last Ride: A Novelby Bart Schneider; Art by Chester Arnold;Kelly’s Cove Press; 2025; $20. Artists, Ezra Pound once observed, were “the antennae” of the human race and provided a “warning system” about the future.…

The Next Booth Over

“This is it?” “Ain’t that whatcha asked for? A cheese sandwich? “Yeah, but I mean this?” “Y’expect some pimentos mixed in? It’s what it is. It’s like a bowl of Cheerios, y’know? You ask for…

Morocco

I flew to Madrid on Iberia and then Royal Air Maroc down to Rabat, the capital of Morocco. Rabat is a regular looking city - easy and inexpensive - which I was eager to leave…

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