At 10:45 AM Sunday morning, three intrepid urbanites - Susan, Steve (amrikisalaami - he blogs about the Middle East while I blog about the Middle West!), and myself - set out on a miniature road trip out to the Nachusa Grassland in North-Central Illinois, about 20 miles west of Rochelle. This 2800 acre patch of tallgrass prairie and oak savannah has been ( Read more... )

So, I spent all of last week in the state of Oregon, both to get a nice long look at the University of Oregon at Eugene and to take a nice little vacation in a land with some awesomely epic forests. As far as the first goal went, my trip was a success, since I now have come to the quite conclusive decision that, next fall, I will be attending the ( Read more... )