Computing Across America

Computing Across America, chapter 47 by Steven K. Roberts San Clemente, California February 14, 1985 Wait a minute — are you sure we’re talking about the same San Clemente? —The average San Clemente resident, upon hearing of my experiences here It began slowly, subtly. First it was just a pair of corduroy pants, then some…

Computing Across America, chapter 46 by Steven K. Roberts Palm Desert, California December 31, 1984 Visits always give pleasure — if not the arrival, the departure Portuguese proverb It’s odd to be in a place where everything looks familiar, even though you’ve never been there before. At first, from the north, Las Vegas was just…

Computing Across America, chapter 45 by Steven K. Roberts St. George, Utah November 10, 1984 We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly.” Simone Weil I finally found the true meaning of desolation. Early in the journey, I…

Computing Across America, chapter 43 by Steven K. Roberts Telluride, Colorado September 28, 1984 You don’t need big words; you need big eyes… Judith of Telluride It was a time of reflection and change. I stopped in Telluride as a punch-drunk quarterback might stumble to the sidelines — watching dazed from the bench as the…

Computing Across America, chapter 42 by Steven K. Roberts Aspen, Colorado September 16, 1984 (photo above by Jeffrey Aaronson, Aspen, September 1984) My day was exciting too. I didn’t ride down any mountains, but I took Leah to the Beechwold Library and we got the baby carriage up to almost 5 mph on the sidewalk!…

Computing Across America, chapter 41 by Steven K. Roberts Crested Butte, Colorado September 5, 1984 There’s never enough time to do all the things you don’t have to do. Anita Simon It’s startling to stumble depressed into a strange town, expecting nothing, knowing no one, and find there a home. Homes are usually things that…

Computing Across America, chapter 40 by Steven K. Roberts Crested Butte, Colorado September 3, 1984 Crested Butte is so safe that we have to find ways to put our lives in peril in order to make them worth living. Fritz in Crested Butte Gunnison, Colorado. Through one of those successions of chance encounters that characterizes…

Computing Across America, chapter 39 by Steven K. Roberts Lake City, Colorado August 25, 1984 Slumgullion Pass… sounds like something out of The Hobbit. Kacy Branstetter There’s nothing like pedaling a 200-pound bike over mountains to give one a profound new respect for gravity. I stood at the summit of 11,361-foot Slumgullion pass and looked…