This is a series of blogs I wrote back in 2015 and 2016 that chronicled a journey across America with my great friend Bill. What started out as a few silly entries capturing our shenanigans as we traveled from Idaho to Wisconsin and back, ended up becoming an introspective piece on life, friendship, coming of age, and not taking the moments with those closest to you for granted.
To quote the lyrics from the Third Eye Blind song Faster, “You gotta steal the time of a life that’s passing by…”
Enjoy.
Prologue
Chapter 2: I Call it a Brass Monkey
Chapter 3: The Fool on the Hill
Chapter 4: Careful With the Benz, Zack
Chapter 7: This is a Long Drive For Someone with Nothing to Think About
Chapter 8: How About a Cocktail? How About a Conversation
Chapter 9: Young Americans, Part 1
Chapter 10: Young Americans, Part 2
Chapter 11: Young Americans, Part 3
Chapter 12: Enter the Motherland
Chapter 14: A Wisco Wedding, Part 1
Chapter 15: Forget it. It’s the 4th of July (A Wisco Wedding, Part 2)
Chapter 16: Come Away With me to a Wisco Wedding, Part 3
Chapter 17: I’m Never Dancing, Ever Again (A Wisco Wedding, Part 4)
Chapter 18: You’re Acting Like an Animal! (A Wisco Wedding, Part 5)
Chapter 19: I Miss My Friends When They are Gone
Chapter 20: Out of the Vein, Part 2
Chapter 21: The Ghosts of the Dude Rancher Lodge
Chapter 22: The Lonesome Crowded West, Part 1
Chapter 23: The Lonesome Crowded West, Part 2
Chapter 24: The Lonesome Crowded West, Part 3
Chapter 25: Out of the Vein, Part 3
Chapter 26: Wish You Were Here
Epilogue
The Trials and Tribulations of a Grizzly Chadams 