Novabase

Novamation's Cross-Country Journey of Forgiveness

A Full Day of Driving

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All I really knew about Oregon was from the game Oregon Trail. I expected lots of typhoid, buffalo-filled deserts, and an eight-color palette with blatting music from an internal computer speaker. In all, it was a lot greener than I expected – not terribly different from Washington.


We all got typhoid, though.

Idaho seems to be made out of mountains, which I also didn’t really expect. When I thought of Idaho, before, I thought of a potato. Not potato fields, mind you, or a state shaped or textured like a potato, but literally just a potato. I guess it’s more like mountains.

2 comments:

barby May 28, 2009 at 11:07 PM  

Did you have to ford any rivers?

Chris May 29, 2009 at 2:04 PM  

Not technically speaking; however, due to the van's terrible, terrible turning radius, I'm fast approaching the honored "driving over a curb in every US state" award.

Overview

In 1879, an American genocide began with the founding of the first Native American boarding school in Carlisle, PA.

In 2009, the time has come -- not for vengeance, but for forgiveness. The time has come for a people to heal.

My Role

My name is Chris. I own and operate Novamation Studios, a video production company in northern Minnesota.

I have been given the rare honor of being asked to accompany White Bison on their 6,800-mile journey of healing, forgiveness, and wholeness. My job is to document every step of the way with video, photographs, recorded interviews, and writing.

Updates to this page will be as often as I can manage. Computer and Internet access may be irregular, but I'll do what I can.

Navigation

I consider this blog finished, and have no plans to make future updates.

Thanks to the seemingly-unfixable formatting of blogger.com, there are two hurdles to reading this site easily. First, older posts are archived and must be accessed using the links below. Secondly, the posts are printed in reverse-chronological order. They must be read from the bottom-up.

If anyone knows a way to change this, please let me know. As is, it's simply the shortcomings of a free service.