
SOUTH MEMPHIS — We were Number One for a while. The Number One most dangerous zip code in America. At least that’s what statistics told us. That’s what the news said.

Salt Lake City International Airport, Gate A2— It’s out there, the wild. For a weekend, we danced together. The mountains, the salt flats, the vast expanses of primordial goo from the lake shore, caking to my shoes in...