Category: Travels
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Travels 3: The Rock Island Line is a Mighty Fine Line
I was heading down the road, trying to loosen my load… We were on our way to Rock Island. When you’re busy doing hard traveling, like me, you can get caught up in the “hypnosis of the highway”. I know I do. You watch the road ahead. All safety alerts are on, but your mind…
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Travels: Part 2 Stuck Inside of Stroudsburg With the Orting Blues Again
The question is quite simple. Were you ever stuck in a small Sunoco station in a town in Pennsylvania, after filling up the tank of a car that was drinking petrol like a politician during Prohibition, while pulling a trailer that you, for a moment forgot you were pulling, with only .8mm of space between…
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The Odyssey Westward: Travels Part 1
Go my sons, put away your books. Buy yourself stout shoes. Walk the hills, the mountains, the valleys and the deserts. In this way, and no other, can you learn of the world and its ways. –Paraphrased from a quote on a 3 x 5 index card clipped to the dashboard of a ’60s VW…
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