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I Go On an Epic Road Trip Through The South, and Make Up For Some Lost Time
I’m not 100% sure when the moment happened that I decided I was done. Maybe there wasn’t a single moment. But at some point during my time in the PNW the decision happened that I was ready to go home. It’s no secret that the last year and a half turned out very different than…
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I Go To Washington State and Hike the Worst Trail that One Guy on AllTrails Has Ever Hiked In His Life
Alternate Title I Also Considered: I go To Washington And Live the Ferry-Tale Life My time in Washington was possibly the most active, probably the most hectic, and definitely the most social stop I’ve had in a very long time. At the beginning of my trip way, way back in early 2020, I got to…
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I Go to Oregon and None of My Oxen Die Fording the River
I have no regrets about the things I didn’t get to do last year, but I do have several places where I feel I have some unfinished business. Near the top of the list was Oregon. I had been looking forward to visiting Oregon from the way beginning of my trip. I had only ever…
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I Go To Back to California And Leave On A Pilgrimage
Welcome back to 2021! As I promised in my last blog post all those many months ago, I spent the last few weeks of 2020 taking a little break from traveling. I went back to New Hampshire where I got some rest, spent time with family, visited friends, and enjoyed my holidays. After spending most…
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I Go To the Upper Midwest and Make the Most of a Long Drive Home
A Tale In Three Acts Prologue If you’ve been following my blog at all you would have seen that while in Montana I decided to head home to New Hampshire for a bit and take a break from traveling for the end of the year. Being in Montana at the time of this decision meant…
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I Go To Montana and Don’t See Any of the Sky in Big Sky Country
Or, The Importance of Cutting Yourself Some Slack in the Midst Of Slow Motion Disaster If I have learned anything from eight months of constant travel during a global pandemic, it is the value of flexibility. Sometimes things just don’t go your way, and when they don’t, there’s nothing you can do but learn from…
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I Go To Utah and See All The Different Shapes of Red Rocks
When I was a kid growing up in New England, my only reference point for what the desert is like was Loony Toons cartoons. A funny thing I learned as an adult is that those desert scenes where Road Runner tricked Wile E. Coyote into falling off of cliffs and running into oncoming traffic were…
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I Go To Yellowstone and Avenge a 20 Year Vendetta
When I was in eighth grade, my family took the Big Cross Country Road Trip to all the major sights across the USA, with one of the crowning stops being at Yellowstone National Park. When I got back to school a couple weeks later, one of the first grade classes was doing some kind of…
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I go to South Dakota and Don’t See Mount Rushmore (Not Even By Accident)
When I told people my next stop on my magical mystery tour through America was South Dakota, I got two common answers. One was “Why?” And the other was “Did you go to Mount Rushmore?” The first question first: I went to South Dakota because it is fucking rad. Western South Dakota in particular is…
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I go to the Ozarks and Have Some “Unfinished Business”
Just as life goes on, so too does the Coronavirus. After several weeks of aggressive self-isolation on the Gulf Coast, it was time for me to move on, but not yet time for me to rejoin society. I decided on the Arkansas Ozarks because it had the winning combination of “lots of outdoors activities” and…
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