Last month, Melvin and I traveled (generally) the Mormon and Oregon trails of the Westward Expansion, but geographically in reverse. Whereas 19th-century emigrants set their sights on physical landmarks like the Platte River, Independence Rock, and Devil's Gate, our itinerary characteristically derived from the home schedules of successive baseball teams.
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| Devil's Gate; Natrona County, Wyoming |
This was a paradoxical adventure. In my first draft of this post, I called it our "most ill-conceived itinerary" but that is a bean counter's accounting. What we did and saw might or might not be equal to the insane amount of driving (2,740 miles, not including Chicago) and inflated financial cost, but we would have experienced none of it if we stayed at home.
