Top 7 Things I Learned On My Roadtrip To The American Southwest

1. Nebraskans love their milk.

2. BBQ tastes really good after hiking in the Colorado mountains for five hours.

3. Driving a hundred miles or so from Colorado to New Mexico, absorbing miles and miles of untouched land, the seemingly painted-on, watercolored mountains and hills covering the distant horizons, would make a man of firm belief all the more steadfast, and a man of unfirm belief all the more hopeful.

4. The Texan Panhandle smells like a thousand cows dipped in their own crapulence and then laid out in the hot sun to bake.

5. Georgia OKeefe is a goddess

6. A Nobel Prize-winning nuclear physicist makes a very good art dealer; or at least a very good lecturer on the topic.

7. Sometimes, for at least a little while, you really can go home again.