I had a fine time in Salt Lake City. I stopped for lunch at The Bayou, a Cajun-food restaurant whose modus operandi is to serve beer, lots of very strong, very unique beer, to a city that’s strangled by complicated and draconian liquor-sales laws. In fact, as I enjoyed a 9% ABV local beer (I [...]
All posts tagged Road Trip 2010
Drinking in a Land of Temperance
Posted by Stefan on September 5, 2010
http://kam.ph/2010/09/05/727/
On Corrals: Horses, Cows, and Toxic Waste
I. Horses While driving near Burns, Oregon on Highway 20 I passed the Bureau of Land Management’s wild horse corrals, where they keep all the wild horses that they round up from the vast surrounding rangeland. Some of the horses are allowed to stay in designated areas, but numbers are tightly controlled. The corral facility [...]
Posted by Stefan on September 5, 2010
http://kam.ph/2010/09/05/on-corrals-horses-cows-and-toxic-waste/
Q: How Fast Does a Freight Train Go Once it Leaves the City?
A: Pretty fast.
Posted by Stefan on September 2, 2010
http://kam.ph/2010/09/02/q-how-fast-does-a-freight-train-go-once-it-leaves-the-city/
Saying Goodbye to Oregon
Posted by Stefan on September 2, 2010
http://kam.ph/2010/09/02/saying-goodbye-to-oregon/
In Which Entering the Rain Shadow of the Cascades and Entering Central Oregon Compels Me to Record Video While Driving
View Larger Map I got a late start around 5 pm on Tuesday, and I was already on Route 26 (Powell Blvd.) so I took that up into the Cascades and the rain, winding through tall trees at the base of Mount Hood. I didn’t feel like I had reached escape-Portland velocity until I emerged [...]
Posted by Stefan on September 2, 2010
http://kam.ph/2010/09/02/crossing-the-cascades/
Driving Across the Country
I’ve mapped out a tentative route for my trip from Portland to the East Coast. Of course, I’ll be contacting editors for job offers along the way, so I may never actually get to my hometown of Lambertville, New Jersey… but this is the plan so far. View Directions to lambertville, nj in a larger [...]
Posted by Stefan on August 22, 2010
http://kam.ph/2010/08/22/driving-across-the-country/