Travel Buddies 

In Jerome, Arizona we pulled off the highway into a rest stop, my husband, our former AZ neighbor John, and me. We parked in the small slice of available shade, pulling in next to the man we came to know named Badger. He said he’d travelled with that doll for more than a decade. The shape of their opened mouths looked identical and their connection harkened me back to my grandmother, Genevieve, whose favorite expression about people was you never know.

Jerome, AZ