Beginning at the Canadian border near Glacier National Park, writer Peter Fish takes Alta Journal readers on a 1,400-mile journey south along U.S. Highway 89. This ultimate Western road trip includes stops in Livingston, Montana; Yellowstone National Park; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Manti, Utah; Arizona’s Grand Canyon; and many more places. Fish joins Alta Live to relive his extraordinary adventure; detail some of the trip’s most spectacular, personal, and problematic moments; and answer your questions about what’s got to be a bucket-list road trip for many an Alta reader. Sit shotgun for what’s sure to be a very inspiring interview.
About the guest:
Peter Fish has been traveling and writing about California and the American West for decades. As travel editor at Sunset magazine, he earned a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award and a Henry R. Luce Award. His article on novelist Harold Bell Wright and the Imperial Valley was published in Alta Journal’s Issue 23. His fiction has appeared most recently in the Sewanee Review. He has taught travel and nature writing as the Rachel Rivers-Coffey Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University and for Stanford University’s Continuing Studies program.•
