Santa Fe, NM
6 min
Adobe at first light
Mud walls, blue doors and the slow start of a long drive west.
Mexican Hat, UT
7 min
A rider on the rim
A butte, a long drop and one horse that knew the trail better than we did.
Monument Valley, UT
9 min
The road to the buttes
Sixty miles of two-lane blacktop, and then the horizon stands up.
Marble Canyon, AZ
5 min
Where the Colorado turns
Above a river that took six million years to cut its way here.
Kingman, AZ
11 min
The last windmill on the ranch road
A fourth-generation rancher, a pump that still turns, and very little rain.
Amboy, CA
4 min
A sky with nothing in the way
No towns, no moon, and the Milky Way all the way down to the creosote.
Joshua Tree, CA
8 min
The trees that keep time
Joshua trees grow about an inch a year. We sat with them until dark.
The Sunday Dispatch
New stories land on Sunday
One letter a week with the next stop, the map and a field note.