Category: Esteban Writes from Somewhere
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Esteban Writes from the Desert
Silence and Las Vegas We’ve moved a lot in the past couple of weeks, from southeast Utah, to Nevada, to California. Some nights are windy, and others are full of nocturnal life. Sometimes we hear the rumbling of an airplane, or cars driving by on distant and not so distant…
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Esteban Writes from Salt Lake City
Fossil beds and fossil fuel We make a stop in the far northwest corner of Colorado, almost next to Utah, to visit Dinosaur National Monument, near the town of Dinosaur, to see some dinosaurs. The town and the park are there because of this quarry, the paleontology equivalent of…
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Esteban Writes from Colorado
Where we’ve been: Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest The Rockies, Rocky Mountain National Park Fort Collins, Denver, Boulder Arapaho National Forest Colorado Springs Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument Pike National Forest Salida Curecanti National Recreation Area Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park Colorado National Monument Mcinnis Canyons National Conservation Area…
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Esteban Writes from Yellowstone
Hey, long time no see. I’ve had a couple of busy couple of weeks (as in “I’m not working and don’t want to open my computer” busy). I’ll start by letting you all know that, if you haven’t seen it, my Comedy Central set came out last week. You can watch…
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Death and the Minutemen in The Badlands
The flat plains of South Dakota suddenly descend into the Missouri river and after crossing it the horizon changes dramatically until it breaks into the Badlands. “They should actually be called ‘the pretty-cool-lands,’” I tell Autumn, who rolls her eyes at me. “You missed the opportunity to call them Badass-lands,”…
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Esteban Writes from the Mackinac Bridge
Last week felt like our trip had not officially started, as we were been waiting for our final piece of equipment to arrive. Which means we were going around in circles around West Michigan, waiting for it to arrive. It’s a solar panel! And we think it has enough wattage to give us sustainable…
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Esteban Writes from Central Michigan
Hey, welcome to my newsletter! Thanks for trusting me with your email address. Expect updates from places I’m visiting, profiles of people I’ll meet on the road, and lots of lots of spam, as I’ll be selling your personal information to the highest bidder. Last weekend we had to fit…
