It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a
man, if he be truly a man, no harm
to go slow; for his glory is not at all
in going, but in being.
            ---John Ruskin

As of 23 April 2006: Arrived yesterday in Chicago, IL after minor mishap with dead battery in Missouri. Learning street names in rapid search for housing. Signed lease today for an ENORMOUS two-bedroom in Logan Square. Will start seach for housemate when I return May 7.

Entries:

• 31March2006: Final reflections on Berkeley, CA. Distinctions between metropolitan and provincial cities, the city as ecosystem.

• 2April2006: Arrival in Truckee. Sadness of parting. Man as social animal. Love and death.

• 4April2006: Waiting out spring storm in Truckee. Envy of naturalists. Truckee Diner.

• 5April2006: Last day in Truckee. Skiing in a snowstorm. Sublimity.

• 6April2006: Bishop. Eastern face of the Sierras. Golden eagle.

• 7April2006: Death Valley NP. Bad campsite choices. Wind. Pathetic fallacy examined.

• 8April2006: Zion NP. Perceptual difficulties in the Rockies. National Parks. Motivations for going to them.

• 10April2006: Zion and Bryce NP. Ethology of climbers. Unconscious fraternity. Love and death. Wilderness and city.

• 11April2006: Goblin Valley SP. Soft and hard sandstones. Waterpocket riverbeds. Cargoes of ancient rivers.

• 12April2006: Canyonlands NP. Moonrise. Oblate spheroids. Enlightenment. Sympathy for Descartes.

• 14April2006: Monument Valley AZ. Canyonlands remembered. Other People’s Kids. Human transitions zones, Bluff UT.

• 16April2006: Black Canyon of the Gunnison NP. How to keep a tent from blowing over. Owl in Mesa Verde. Durango. Easter Vigil. Lilies and the New Sun.

• 18April2006: Salina KS. Tourist attractions of drivethrough country. Flatness. Madness. Green.

• 22April2006: Chicago IL. Arrival. Effects of the city on the paths of roads. Urbs.

• 3April2007: Chicago IL: After an Irish interval. Memories of sandstone. Biology completely vindicated.