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I’m a freelance journalist based in Colorado, where I specialize in writing about the changing American West and travel writing from a shrinking globe. I hope you enjoy it. Please feel free to contact me at david.m.frey@comcast.net.
Route 666 is fading in the distance. That stepson of the Mother Road –Route 66 –is headed toward oblivion. That’s a shame, because for me, like plenty of pavement pilgrims who arrived in the West over the last half-century in RVs, SUVs or astride Harleys, the Devil’s Highway was the road into God’s Country....
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GLENWOOD SPRINGS – Michel Field knew she had little to worry about, but she worried anyway. Six miles from home, a brush fire burned across a highway and a river, high up a canyon. But she couldn’t forget eight years before, how winds whipped a remote brush fire on Storm King Mountain into a...
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Side by side, Laura and Jackie Zeigle run past the pavement to the soft jogging path that cuts behind their high school. Laura glides past with long, graceful strides; Jackie stands tall and straight, her arms tucked tight against her ribs. The identical twins are hard to tell apart in the Bingham High School...
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Drums and chants fill the Arizona air as the sun rises over the sandstone mesas and cedar-spotted canyons of the Hopi Reservation. It’s powwow music, but this powwow is only on the airwaves. “Gooooood morning!” Wallace Hyeoma cries into the KUYI radio microphone, greeting listeners from every tribe that may be tuned in. It’s...
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CARBONDALE – After former President Bill Clinton arrived to playa round of golf, about 10,000 people crowded into town. But most weren’t there to see him. They came for Carbondale’s annual music and crafts festival. When Clinton came to the Roaring Fork Valley as president, he attracted an entourage of staff and security. Saturday,...
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