I got pulled over today, which shouldn’t have been that big a deal. It was a little weird…
This is not my first cross-country road trip. My first, in 1996, when I was four years old and small enough that my brother and I didn’t feel crammed into the back seat of our parents’ Toyota Corolla with our 70 pound dog, Starbuck, at our feet, was just the…
We’d booked two nights at an Econo Lodge in Leucadia, CA, the little beachside town I grew up in, and we had no idea what we were doing next. We’d been offered couches in San Francisco and Portland, and we were still trying to decide if we wanted to couchsurf up the coast and commit to driving our bank…
