End of the Trail *Author's Note: Some extras and maybe an epilogue still to come. "Somewhere ages and ages hence: two roads diverged in a wood and I- I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference." - Robert Frost The next morning I was laying in the Urgent Care ward in the Flagstaff Medical Center. One nurse on my left was taking my blood pressure. Another stood at the foot of my cot telling me the arthropod bite on my right index fing...

Bonus Round *Author's Note: This is my second-last blog post. The one after this will be my final entry. "You do not have to walk on your knees for a thousand miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves... Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, h...

The One "Prices may be higher for single travellers, people may stare and maitre d's in dumping restaurants may hassle me. But life is short, and trips shorter. I've reached a point where I've decided to deal with both on my own terms. - Susan Spano ("Table For One") "Good morning!" The receptionist at the Hilton Garden Inn beamed broadly when I walked through the door. "How are you?" I parked my suitcase in front of the desk and commenced to getting out my pa...