Windmills, cattle, and coal trains

First post from Thedford, Nebraska, where eastern-bound coal trains from Gillette pass by regularly.

This journey is made possible by fossil fuels, carrying our Honda CRV, the Tortoise, Dick, the paleo-herpetologist, in search of fossil tortoises, and me, the geographer in search of how people are, or are not, changing ways to a future where we will no longer burn fossils to make our lives go round.

I'll be posting notes and pictures regularly to share the discoveries along the way this summer.