Transitions: The Cross-Country Road Trip

My sweetheart and I arrived in Oakland, California, last week after a five-day road trip from Austin, Texas.

Here’s a shot (looking back on the way we came) of one of the roads we traveled — U.S. Highway 60 in Western New Mexico. We took a lot of old U.S. highways on this trip, traveling through West Texas and across the center of New Mexico before we found it necessary to take Interstate 40 across Arizona.

Then it was back to the less-traveled ways up the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada and...