The Scenic Route

There’s nothing like a road trip to stir the imagination. The Adventure Buddy crew’s most recent 5000-mile detour through the western United States gave plenty of time and space to contemplate the bigness of life and a finer appreciation of taking the longer routes—the broad horizons of long country highways like the 722 Farm-to-Market in the Texas Panhandle, the traversals up rutted dirt paths in forests and meadows like the road to the Pine Creek Ski Area in Wyoming, and the winding mountain roads like the 139 in western Colorado from Dinosaur to Grand Junction. What follows is an attempt to depict the bigness of what we experienced—the sights and smells, the characters we came across, the music we listened to that stirred our senses, and the books we read to further stimulate our ruminations.