Hit the Road, Zach

It has been quite some time since I wrote the previous post. No doubt some loyal readers were wondering such things as:

“Did Zach just stay in Utah forever?”
“Did Zach ever install his carputer or did he only assemble it?”
“Did Zach actually, in fact, die?”
“If I had a nickel for every blog post apologizing for [...]

After recording in Idaho a couple posts ago, the next day found me leaving Mountain Home,

hopping on the highway,

and proceeding towards Utah, which happened to be a scenic drive to rival all scenic drives.

Soon I was entering the part of Idaho known as “The Super Scenic Part That’s Even More [...]

Get ready for Boise! I didn’t record anything there!
“Explain this long post then,” demands AG snippily.
Whoa, what’s gotten into you today?
“Sigh… I’m impatient to hear about further recordings, not just travels. I already know you traveled, and all those scenic pictures just make me jealous.”
Well, lucky for both of us then that my [...]

Bend! Besides being the home of famed cluster balloonist Kent Couch (undoubtedly the first cluster balloonist to fly in a lawnchair from Bend to Idaho), Bend is also known as one of the most scenically scenic places around.
“Excuse me,” interrupts Attractive Girl, delightfully.
Well, it’s been a while! I was almost afraid you had [...]

Washington, unlike Montana, was full of happening peeps. In fact, it was pretty amazing just how many happening peeps happened to be happening in Washington. The first of such peeps was a fellow in Spokane named Steve, who plays a mean guitar.
“How mean?” asks a nearby international student. “Does it trip the [...]

Montana! I’m pretty sure that if it had an ‘ñ’ instead of just an ‘n’, it would be Spanish for mountain. Which is appropriate, considering that Montana had a bunch of those.
I was driving in the vaguely hilly, sparsely vegetated land of Wyoming for a while, then went up towards Billings, and then things [...]