Author Archives: Christopher Holshek

Once I left the Lincoln Boyhood National Monument in Indiana, I became progressively melancholic, for two reasons. First, fatigue, both physical and mental, was setting in.  Due to the interlude in Liberia, I had compressed especially the return half of … Continue reading →

After a long day’s ride through South Dakota, turning directly south from Sioux Falls to pick up the Louis & Clark Trail again in Iowa, I thought I had seen enough with the emotional visit to the Wounded Knee Museum.  … Continue reading →

As impressed as I was with the quiet, uninhabited enormity and grandeur of the Rocky Mountains, coming down from as high as over 12,000 feet in elevation into the wide open spaces of Montana and into eastern Wyoming into South … Continue reading →

Sometimes it’s better to take a view of something the other way around in order to gain a more comprehensive appreciation of what was done and why. After leaving Yosemite along a 15-mile 7% declining road winding along a steep mountainside, I … Continue reading →

While in California, during one of my daily phone conversations with my Spanish girlfriend who works for UNHCR in Bukavu, Congo, I asked for her help on Spanish terminology as I look to improve my understanding of the language that … Continue reading →