Shadows on the enormous mountains of coal waiting to fuel the SS Badger caught my eye. The day was foggy and the smoke from the ship mixed with the fog hid the grain elevators. We had been admiring the beauty and functionality of the grain elevators in each of the raiload towns since Montana, especially the way their shadows revealed their form. In the port at Manitowoc, the elevators are enormous, and I had never seen mountains of coal so high. It seems a central point in vast system of moving agricultural products from one place to another. As we pedal on muscle power, thinking about the dependency of this system on fossil fuels, I wonder if as a society we have become dwarfed by the things we make.
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