LA to PDX: The Back Way

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Choose Your Own Adventure:

The Mother Lode

Nobody Knows Where You Are

Waking Darkness

Theroux and Friends

A Sort of Homecoming

Hello/Goodbye

Crossing the Yuba River near the Pacific Crest Trail in Northern California.

Why don’t I just write the story? Why didn’t I just report each day’s journey? Why [...]

R We There Yet? Re-evaluating Los Angeles's Transit Future

“Out of service,” the driver tells me as I step on the #4 in Downtown Los Angeles.

It is nearly 3 a.m. and Broadway’s indoor swap meets, electronic stores and jewelry shops sit darkened behind me. Shadowed by the marquee of an ancient movie house my face betrays concern, perhaps even desperation. I’ve [...]