Badlands, Bison, Broken Promises: Road Trip from Twin Cities to Black Hills
One minute we were driving through gentle, rolling prairie on a scorching South Dakota summer day. The next, the earth dropped away. Striped cliffs, deep canyons, and sharp pinnacles appeared almost out of nowhere. That was the Badlands, South Dakota; land bad to negotiate, but never bad to behold. We were exploring southwestern South Dakota, […]
Water, Sand, Stone: A Road Trip from Bengaluru to Mysuru
Num ooru, Mysuru, nim ooru yaar ooru (Mysuru is my town, what is your town?). Decades ago, I sang that line with a child’s fierce conviction. Recently, my wife and I followed that childhood refrain back, driving from Bengaluru to Mysuru. We made the most of the journey. Three stops. Three elements. Three encounters with […]
Yellowstone: America’s Original Wonderland
I was drowning in the weight of routine. So, when my son showed up and said, “You need to destress, let’s just GO!”—we did. We decided on a Thursday, and by the following Tuesday morning in early June, we were on a four-hour flight from New York to Bozeman, Montana, a gateway town to Yellowstone […]