![]() In the back seat, my daughter Snapchatted with her friends. Texts, emails, and news alerts pinged my phone. We saw that each state is in fact multiple states southeastern New Mexico looks nothing like northwestern New Mexico.Īs we drove, we streamed music and listened to podcasts. Abandoned homes and businesses, piles of rusted metal. Fewer Donald Trump signs than I’d expected, but more poverty. The sulfur baths of Pagosa Springs, the road-running groundhogs of eastern Utah. The physical world: sagebrush and junkyards, dry streambeds and buttes. Rising through the West, we experienced what a philosopher might call reality. We stopped for gas in Cokeville on our way north. He shot her in the head, then turned the gun on himself. Horrified, the children fled the building.ĭavid found his wife writhing in agony on the classroom floor. His wife had ignited the device accidentally, bursting into flames. He rounded up all the kids and handed the bomb’s detonator to his wife, then excused himself and went to the bathroom. It wasn’t a well-thought-out plan, as David was not exactly a sane man. They end with carnage.ĭavid had devised a plan to hold each of the school’s 136 children hostage for $2 million apiece. David had spent the previous few years working on a philosophical treatise he called “Zero Equals Infinity.” This is how it is with a certain type of American male. They carried semiautomatic weapons and a homemade gasoline bomb. On May 16, 1986, David and Doris Young entered an elementary school in Cokeville, Wyoming. And in one of them, our 15-year-old daughter could be forced to have a baby if she were raped. It’s handmaid in two out of five, I tell her. So Kyle wants to know, as we enter each state, whether she is a full citizen in this place, or a handmaid. Wade, making what was a fundamental right contingent on which state a woman happens to be in. As we cross each state line, my wife asks, “Do I have all my rights here?” The week before our departure, the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. States to be visited include New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah. It is summer 2022, and I am on a road trip with my family from Austin, Texas, to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. This vision of Americans is, of course, a myth. Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. ![]()
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