Make Yourself Not At Home

The Appealing Menace Of Port Costa, the Town Of Zero Change

For as long as I can remember, and for reasons I can’t entirely explain, I’ve been in search of a place fully isolated from the rest of the world. I used to think that if peace was to be found on earth, it would be in a self-contained, out-of-the-way place with clear and uncontested boundaries.

One day, when I was 15, my mother was driving me to a baseball practice not far from where we lived in a suburb of Berkeley when we passed a sign to a place called Port …