From the Steens to Southern Utah

This is another photo collection from when I left Mann Lake at the eastern base of the Steens Mountains in  eastern Oregon, to the breathtaking views of southern Utah. While in Utah, I met up with my friend, Larry Krumdiek, and stayed at Kodachrome Basin State Park and went on numerous hiking excursions in the surrounding area. The impressive geological formations seem unending! I'll be posting more photos and stories from the Navajo Reservation in a few days. Enjoy the sights!

Back on the Trail

As the saying goes, I'm on the road again! If you are so inclined to pray or think positive thoughts on my behalf, all such spiritual and metaphysical exercises are appreciated. It's my goal to finish my next book on this leg along the Uttermost Road. In addition to completing my writing project, my desire is to encounter new people along the way and return to the reservations where I've begun to reestablish relationships from decades ago. Additionally, I'm attempting to make myself available for speaking engagements . . . just about anywhere my truck and trailer will travel. If you know of such opportunities, or would like more information as to the nature of my speaking topics, please contact me.

My Birthday Gift To You

Today is my birthday. So here is my birthday gift to you . . . a message I presented last Sunday in Salem, Oregon, titled "The Greatest Wonder." If you're curious or have never heard me speak, here's a link to the audio recording. I don't consider myself a great public speaker, so that's not the point of posting this link in order for you to hear my "eloquent" voice. Yet there's nothing more "eloquent" than the Voice that's been captivating my heart the past few months along the uttermost road. In some ways, it addresses the question as to the how and why of LYGO . . . of loving your guts out!

Full Circle

On December 22nd, I completed a western loop with an ameba-like circumference of over 8,500 miles. Amazingly, almost half of those miles were racked up by excursions from my “campsites.” The photos with this post document every campsite except for two: Tijeras, New Mexico and Shasta Lake, California (I also parked for one night each at Jim & Becky Hohnstein’s house in Minatare, Nebraska, and Mark & Marlene Forster’s house in Sanders, Arizona). 

A Road 30 Years Ago

It was exactly 30 years ago from this fall that I first ventured onto the Navajo Reservation in NE Arizona near the community of Klagetoh. That was over half my lifetime ago . . . 53% to be exact. That experience impacted my life in profound ways, more than I realized it would then. Even now, I’m still surmising, unfolding, discovering the ways in which my Navajo experience influenced the course of my life and the present journey on which I find myself. Returning to the scene has rekindled my memory, shedding light on the question of how my (our) lives are influenced by experiences, and especially the people we encounter along the way and the relationships that ensue.