Casper Mountain

And this is like a resource that I have been so carefully protecting, not really knowing why.

There was a time when, uh, Darlene and I lived on top of Casper Mountain in Wyoming, and there was a forest fire, and we could see smoke on the horizon, and we had like 20 minutes to figure out what were we going to save in the cabin and put in the company Cherokee and drive down the mountain.

Well, the only thing I could think of was those journals, and I, you know, hauled them in, and I think we had two cats and some other things.

And that instinct of protecting these things has, uh, been with me ever since I've started writing them.