The Long Haul
It’s late November in Mill River, which means the orange hunting hats are for sale again at the general store.
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The Art of Collaboration
When Vela started a year ago, pretty much the only rule that the six participating writers established was that the writing should somehow be about, or simply inspired by, travel.
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Not There Yet…
If you were a woman in the 1960’s and you worked at Newsweek, chances are you were a researcher, fact checker, or mail girl—but probably not a writer or editor.
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Below the Surface
The kid says he saw a fireball once. “Tell it Spanish so that everyone understands,” Abraham tells him, and the kid switches from Portuguese to Spanish…
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“God Bless Big Oil”: Field Notes from the Land of Industrial Tourism
You want to know why they always name a blast furnace after a woman?” asked a stout woman in dark sunglasses and a hardhat.
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Summer People
They arrive as the first dogwood trees are flowering. They trickle in at first, so few you don’t even notice.
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Fear and Loneliness in Sublette County
It was lonely at the top of Indian Pass. I should have been more excited to be at the apex of my hike, nearly 12,000 feet in elevation.
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A Non-Travel Essay
It is the twist in the red tail’s neck that makes it so appealing. The way I can almost read death in the curve of the spine. Feathers still cling to the open wings…
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Rekindled
When I was nineteen, I burned down a small field of bamboo. It was one of the loneliest afternoons I can remember.
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