Art Sterling follows the strange and tender stories off the main road: Shuetsu Sato’s duct-tape signs in Tokyo, an electric toilet-paper haul in Australia, Arcata’s Kinetic Grand Championship, a robin nest stopping a Ford F-250 in Olathe, a blue whale skeleton at Oregon State’s Hatfield Marine Science Center, hope for Chesapeake Bay blue crabs, and Joe Symonds, the 87-year-old DoorDash driver whose wrong turn led to unexpected help.