Innocents Abroad

News and Views of the Murphelets

  • Pierre graduates!

  • A Day in the Life

    The Minnesota Driver’s Manual says this about traffic lights: A steady yellow light or arrow means “caution.” The signal is about to turn red. Do…

  • Pithy comments

    It has been a whirlwind.  When I last wrote, we had just arrived in Minnesota; we are now in Minneapolis, settling into our apartment a…

  • Changes

     We’re in the final stretch. We left Montana Wednesday morning, drove more or less straight through North Dakota, and arrived at our friend Kate’s cabin…

  • Big Sky Country

    Montana is vast. We crossed the border at Sweetgrass yesterday at midday; tonight, we are in Glendive, near the North Dakota border, but still in…