From Course to Course, High Plains Drifting
The first and second at The Sand Hills Club
On America’s High Plains, towns announce themselves as clusters of silvery skyscrapers rising above the flatness, and only with diminishing distance do the great towers resolve themselves into grain elevators. After awhile I knew that the towns were much alike. Along with the elevators would be a railroad grade crossing, a convenience store for gas and Coke, the remains of what once was the center of town, and then more road, much more road.
I have always wanted to see that kind of vastness, grand and unpeopled, always... Full Story
We worked our way up Ireland’s eastern coastline from Dublin toward Belfast with one of the world’s big boys, Royal County Down, on the agenda. After a tough driving day; wet, slick, and breezy, we’d made Newcastle... Full Story
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Aberdovey and Bernard Darwin
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