Stray Thoughts: A Note to Travelers

For those who long to travel,

almost nothing else can satisfy those urges.

There is nothing like standing at any coast,

on the precipice of a continental shelf,

staring out into the vast openness…

but you can do that here as well.

Stand on the edge of a cutbank

on the Missouri and see for miles,

see through the millennia

if you have the vision.

We may not have the busy markets

of Marrakesh or Hong Kong

but we…