Tips for Packing and Preparing for a Road Trip
While American road trips had a golden age of sorts from the 1950s to the 1970s, thanks to a quickly developing interstate highway system and the automobile becoming a commonplace fixture, there’s perhaps never been a better time to hit the road.
As travel restrictions begin to loosen, many Americans are turning to road trips to scratch their itch of wanderlust and cure their cases of pandemic-induced cabin fever.
In fact, online discount travel agency Priceline conducted a survey that took a deep dive into America’s current resurgence of road trips and found that in the last year, road trips have become so popular that 9 in 10 Americans have taken at least one and the vast majority (75 percent) took more than four.
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Former Boise Fire Chief Dennis Doan told KTVB that 85% of wildfires are human caused. Author: Mark Johnson Updated: 10:15 PM MDT May 12, 2021
BOISE, Idaho With some of the worst air quality ever, small towns evacuated and nearly all of them preventable, the wildfires that happened in 2018 can offer a history lesson as Idaho becomes warmer.
Tim Barker with the National Weather Service spent most of his summer of 2018 tracking the smoke from fires around southern Idaho, Oregon and California, predicting where it was going based on winds. Smoke can travel a long ways, if they re hot in a fire it can travel high up in the atmosphere and that will go travel longer, he explained. Most of the smoke we are seeing are from fires in Oregon and California that s been blowing up over us over a few days. And also we see the Rattlesnake fire near Riggins.
Joy Harjo is the celebrated author of nine books of poetry and the memoir
Crazy Brave. She edited the collection of Native nations poetry,
When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through. And her most recent album is
I Pray for My Enemies. Joy Harjo was born and lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where, six generations ago, her ancestors were forcibly relocated from their homelands in Alabama.
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Crazy Brave a few months ago, during the pandemic. And I kind of read it like poetry. I read it a little bit at a time and savored it a bit at a time, which was a wonderful way to read it. And in preparing to be with you, I looked at some other interviews you’ve done, and I really want to draw into your sensibility, your gifts of seeing and knowing, which includes vision and dreams and memories that are not contained in this lifetime. And I felt like people don’t really go there with you, although you go there in your writing. For example, yo