I’m flying across the country to talk to teachers in the Pacific Northwest about NSTA’s journals, books, and online media. Soon the dry, vast desert will transform into the verdant, wet, asparagus green of Portland, Oregon. Mt. Hood will be out there somewhere, probably shrouded in clouds. The trees and rocks will be foreign to this child of the Eastern Piedmont. Where’s an Earth Science teacher when I need one. Oh, there’s one.  “Hey, I have a question…”