T Edward Bak

Oakmoss lichen (Evernia prunastri) in Forest Park earlier this spring.

After a quick family trip home to Colorado I caught my train (California Zephyr) out of Denver’s Union Station on Friday. Passed thru desert in Utah and Nevada before a long layover in Sacramento where my good friend and fellow cartoonist Rita Sapunor took me out to Locke — a postcard of a tiny river town full of character and rowdy-ass bars and old boardinghouses. We visited the bookshop/antique shop and the Chinese lottery museum then caught a phenomenal show at a tiny venue with the locals. Unreal.

Made it back to Sac for a quick bite then my northbound connection (Coast Starlight) with time to spare. Woke up in my seat the next morning with a view of Mt Shasta. Later scored an old railroad spike beside the train yard in Eugene when I stepped momentarily down from the coach for a breath of fresh air.

Bak home in St Johns for now. Rolling over the Rockies and Cascades and Sierras and thru the deserts and along the coasts is medicine to me. I am healed by travel.

New risograph covers for my REMOTE VIEWER comic premiering at the Permanent Damage comix event hosted by Floating World Comics in Portland OR August 26 2023.