1. For the Native American on the Crow reservation with a lip of sunflower seeds and a eagle feather fluttering from the rearview mirror of his battered brown on white Cadillac.
2. For the ghost houses, gutted RV parks, rusting grain silos, rotting cattle gates, folded rooftops of depression era farm houses, the unsteady hands that vandalize the husks of arcades, restaurants, schools, and auto dealerships.
3. For the perfect alchemy of a forlorn soundtrack from The Westerlies and the sunset breaching a thundershower over fields of mustard.
4. The Long Range RV that craws along the Continental Divide like a ten wheeled geriatric home.
5. The prayers to end abortion, unite church and state, re-elect the president (again).
6. The way the planes of South Dakota suddenly give way to the black hills and you don’t scratch another flat surface until the Pacific Ocean.
7. The Missouri and Yellowstone rivers.
8. The legendary 10,000 Silver Dollar Bar.
9. How the planes of Eastern Washington surrender to ancient tributaries of the Colombia River and on to those precious glazed evergreen Cascades.
10. Rocking Dio though the rush hours of Seattle.
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