Summarizing a few weeks on the road with a mere handful of images isn't really possible. That is, however, the point of posting a few pics at this stage. Big overview, minus the nuance. I've still got two days left in Wisconsin and Minnesota before heading back to Seattle. I have new and freshened-up stories swirling around me like a cloud of deer flies. If we soon cross paths, my apologies for what may well seem a manic rundown of what I've found along the way. I love the exploration side of this "investigative memoir." But I will soon transition from this time on the road to the equally exciting time of getting it all on the page. Here's hoping the narrative payoff will offer real snap, crackle and pop...sorry for the copyright infringement with that overdubbed ad copy...I'm still trying to get a decent response to some questions from Kellogg's...they're the sort of corporation that has me acting more like Michael Moore when I'm generally more along the lines of updated Charles Kuralt...

Click on the photos to make the gallery advance. No captions for the time being. Treat it like a visual MadLib. Sent, as luck would have it, from Madison - one of our nation's most unapologetically liberal places.