Friday Field Notes: Postcard from the Road

Where are you wandering this weekend? Chime in below.

Autumn always seems to be a hectic time at Southlands HQ. Wrapping up the book has only made things worse: now I’m on the road for magazine assignments.

I’ve been pushing beyond the southlands. I spent last weekend cooped up in an airport hotel outside Dallas for a conservative, anti-conservation conference. (More on that to come.)

Perhaps the highlight of that trip was picking up Lauren Groff’s new novel The Vaster Wilds, which tells the story of a young woman escaping famine at the Jamestown colony by entering the vast surrounding forest. Think The Road, if only it were set in the first years of colonial Virginia. It’s grim yet gripping.

Today, at least, I get to enjoy the scenery as I fly and road trip into Taos, New Mexico, for a wedding. But I feel like I missing the turn in the weather that’s finally making the Southern outdoors palatable.

Where are y’a…