Endless American Road

Mile Marker: Day One in Utah (Phoenix, AZ to Grand Gulch Wilderness Area, UT)

Sometimes you start driving without a destination

May 12 • JohnnyAppleseedX

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Road Atlas: Start Here

A guide for finding your way.

May 7 • JohnnyAppleseedX

April 2026

Campfire Curriculum: Riders of the Purple Sage and Chronicle of a Death Foretold

The changing of seasons and a report on two more novels in our Beyond the Western Edge Curriculum

Apr 29 • JohnnyAppleseedX

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March 2026

Campfire Curriculum: Lonesome Dove

A brief reflection on why Larry McMurtry's Western epic is an essential addition to the American Canon

Mar 20 • JohnnyAppleseedX

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Something in the Sky: WTF Arizona? 🌵🛸

High Strangeness in the skies of Arizona.

Mar 12 • JohnnyAppleseedX

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February 2026

Campfire Curriculum, An Introduction

Beyond The Western Edge: A Course on Virtue, Sin, and Frontier Sagas

Feb 23 • JohnnyAppleseedX

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The Age of Slop

How do we survive the constant amplification of nonsense?

Feb 7 • JohnnyAppleseedX

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Storming the Gates

Part 3: Here Comes the Flood

Feb 6 • JohnnyAppleseedX

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Storming the Gates

Part 2: Engineered Reality

Feb 1 • JohnnyAppleseedX

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January 2026

Storming the Gates

Part 1: Wrestling with Complexity

Jan 29 • JohnnyAppleseedX

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November 2025

One Year on Substack, An Attempt

Reflections on Year 1

Nov 7, 2025 • JohnnyAppleseedX

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October 2025

Between Dreams and Duty

Literature is important, but only if you make time for it.

Oct 19, 2025 • JohnnyAppleseedX

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