Saddest of the Pleasures

Lewis and Clark ghost here
Bike ride aside Teton shadowed mighty Snake
Crowd adorned Major Sights in Yellowstone - 5 minutes off path nobody
Ascend and descend passes, past elk and bear
Jam with movie star under bright night big sky
Almost booted out of Roosevelt National Park in the Northern Bad Lands
Marci and skye experience Mare ultrasound - no baby - while papa logisticizes
Road weary to green mosquito lake in Minnesota called Leech after shopping local farm corn at park rapid walmart
Diesel overflow. again. And this aint bio. clean bugs off the window.
Sit up straight. keep breathing as the big trucks move on by.
World at 65mph used to be fast, not so anymore.
Still miles roll by
There's a lot of grass out there Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, Minnesota, Wisconsin
and hospitality
Not too many VW's in this part of the world. "nope. not here," says the woman in Duluth, MN, "we ship too much iron ore."
This is USA Car Country
As if on cue, on bridge to Wisconsin fussy german temperature gauge shorts - back to Minnesota, eat tacos at the brewpub and stay in the no-tell motel
Try again tomorrow
Tompkins once told me to read The Saddest Pleasure
Its a travel story
Just like this one
Still smiling