Ryan Ratliff, author of the (Reluctant) Trips book series, lives in the small town of Strawberry, Arizona. And though it is not a mining town, and rather than desert, is surrounded by mountains perforated with pines, it is, in some ways, similar to the series’ fictional town of Bowling. Primarily in that it’s small and is located in Arizona. Here he writes, works, and like many, sometime after the sun sets, he sleeps.