Wander the Great Plains

Travel writing from Minnesota to Louisiana

North America's Great Plains region, which extends from the Canadian plains states of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan, to the southern Mississippi River states and Mexico's northern gulf, is a broad collection of prairies, farmlands and lowlands.

Steadily losing its rural populations for over a hundred years, the Great Plains is a region in transition. Climate change, big agriculture and globalization are swiftly transforming this land of lonely roads, vast swamps and prairies.

Catfish Heaven: Winter on the Bayou

Ttraveling the back roads of Louisana's bayou country prior to Hurricane Katrina.
Flyfishing
with Mr. Phu

Notes on Minnesota culture and fishing customs, including a backstory about hagfish.
Texas Hill Country

Travels in Austin and the Texas Hill Country region, including notes on American camels.
Harmony, Minnesota

Notes on the Spam Museum, Southeastern Minnesota and the Amish of the Midwest.
Green Skies in Lower Manhattan

The sky above is green, and the strange color casts a glow on everybody rushing for cover.
Sweet Southern Swamp

I left Macon, in Central Georgia; pastures and pines; hungry for sweet potato cakes and grits.
Deep South Sketch Journal

Sketches, photographs and notes from my travels in America's deep south.
Minnesota Sketch Journal

I returned to Minnesota this summer and brought my sketchbook and watercolors.