There’s a type of dream that certain city folk have. For some, it’s a Canadian backwoods scenario. For others, it’s an Appalachia vibe they’re looking for. For a lot of people, it’s a California escape (Route 1, anyone?) But that quintessential American dream of riding off into the sunset involves a notion of the Wild West. Cowboys, tumbleweeds, covered wagons, that kind of thing.
The true-life stories of that journey in today’s day and age are few and far between. But Daily Coyote is the ideal virtual portal through which to vicariously live out this fantasy. The author describes her trajectory as follows, “I live in a town of 300 people, where it’s a 60 mile trip to the nearest grocery store and not uncommon to swing by the post office (or bar) on horseback. Two years ago, I had plans to move from San Francisco back to New York City—plans that were derailed when I rode through Wyoming and fell in love with this place.”
The fairy tale got even more fairy tale-like when a newborn coyote orphan pup landed on this woman’s doorstep and she decided to raise him as a member of her domesticated menagerie. The resulting blog is a chronicle of the coyote’s growth and how he fits into her life, as both a pet and a wild animal. Some of the photographs are amazing, and the human-animal dynamic is, of course, endlessly heartwarming and fascinating.