The road will take you to many places in life. It conveyed an idea to reality and a passion into livelihood. Roads brought us from Eugene to Montana and Minneapolis, to Boston and Belchertown, to New York and New Hampshire and every hamlet between. ...
Mar 10th 2011, 10:42pm
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Motivated by patriotic duty and a rumor of better weather, I trekked down to our nation's capital. The four-hour Chinatown bus ride was well worth it. I walked around the national mall for about six hours, jaw dropped. Of all the cities we have visited...
Feb 24th 2011, 3:55pm
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Last night Jon and I had to improvise with the sleeping situation. One couch two guys. So we both could have a little comfort I took the cushions off the couch and gave them to Jon for the floor.
With eggs and toast on board I journey over to Manhatt...
Feb 23rd 2011, 2:43pm
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After a late start to the day, 1pm, I walked with my buddy, Wesley, and his girlfriend, Kristine, and their friend, Matt, down Bedford Ave. This street has become a center of gentrification in Brooklyn and all of New York for that matter. Nearly every ...
Feb 22nd 2011, 3:55pm
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The sleeping conditions Jon and I have been put through could be categorized as bi-polar and then some. Two nights ago we were staying on couches with empty beer cans/ bottles around us, not all ours, and overhearing bass pumping music through the wall...
Feb 21st 2011, 2:59pm
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Following a light nap, we ventured early in the morning to Mt. Greylock state park so Calvin could run the 2nd annual Moby Dick 7-mile snowshoe race. With the odds stacked against him—winds threatened to knock over the trees and I don't think Cal...
Feb 20th 2011, 2:06pm
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The lane called Hobart can be compared to 15th and High area in Eugene. It’s filled with college kids, not the cleanliest area, and lots of beer cans. Our new neighbors raged next door until near 5 in the morning. Good thing Jon and I didn’...
Feb 19th 2011, 1:41pm
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Today we met up with a good friend of mine from way back when, Karl. Karl is no stranger to the road himself, having driven from here to Alaska and everywhere in between over the last few years. In the time since we had last seen each other he got marr...
Feb 18th 2011, 6:21pm
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There's change in the air. Can you feel it? No, that's indigestion. The change I am talking about is the magical time of the year when nature's sweet nectar is unlocked: maple syrup. Vermont maple syrup. The good stuff. Just up the road is the Vermont ...
Feb 17th 2011, 4:46am
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I awoke from my Anne Frank attic room this morning to sun beams blasting through the skylight window above my sleeping bag. I could tell it was considerably colder than yesterday, which was about 50F. Through the trap door in the floor or ceiling, depe...
Feb 16th 2011, 2:38pm
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