Robby Porter: We need PEPS more than STEM

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Robby Porter, of East Montpelier, a self-employed woodworker and the owner and partner in small scale hydroelectric projects. He has published a book, “Doodlebug, A Road Trip Journal,” about the road trip that was the genesis for this essay.
In 1994 my brother and I took a two month road trip from Vermont to Los Angeles. Back then we called home on a pay phone, I made my journal entries on an old Olivetti manual typewriter. My brother was 18