Monthly Archives: December 2017

The junkyard museum. There’s a scene about 20 minutes before the end of the 1983 cult movie Eddie and the Cruisers where the main character Eddie Wilson, frustrated by a music label’s rejection of his magnum opus, drives his girlfriend Joann …

An unplanned stop. Looking at the photos in the Ewam Garden you can see that the morning had quite a hazy start. I didn’t know the severity of the problem but I did know that traveling mainly north but also …

Ewam in the Buddhist tradition. In many ways, Buddhism is among the world’s most flexible religions. It’s based on the teachings of Siddhārtha Gautama who spent much of his life in what is now Uttar Pradesh (an area of northeastern …

When I began planning this trip in February, stopping in Missoula seemed to be not merely a logical and reasonable choice but a nearly ideal one. A mere 300 miles from Canyon Village, it was close enough to allow plenty …

Making toxic water. As the pit grew, ACM began purchasing nearby properties until it had swallowed the surrounding neighborhoods of Meaderville, Dublin Gulch, and McQueen. In the sixties, the Berkeley Pit Mine was feeding the Weed Concentrator more than 50,000 …