Category: 50 States
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Update on the plan
For once I’m taking a few drafts before publishing a blog post. I wrote this in kind of a fury last night and realized it is simultaneously too long and lacking context. Today, I am writing from the edge of Denali National Park, at the raft guide camp I’ve been at for a few days.…
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Initial thoughts on Denali
A song that has been resonating in my head this whole trip, and solidly ignored, has been 3 x 5 by John Mayer. It says, today I finally overcame, trying to put the world inside a picture frame; maybe I will tell you all about it in my own way when I’m in the mood…
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Travel update, September 1 car 10,000 miles on the road
Last night someone told me that they were grateful for the conversation, one of the most interesting people they’d met, but also said that at first I seemed a little crazy until after I had spoken for five or six minutes. I guess that’s just my reality, and really, I’m theme with this idea I’ve…
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50 state photos?
I wrote a post purporting to go through photographic proof of my 50 state journey. It was terrible I guess, so I’m not that upset that when I tried to post it here, it didn’t work at all. I’m going to have to put it in Word or something. Maybe I can export it from…
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I’m finally on the road, what next?
I keep hearing isolated phrases from music that don’t really make any sense in context, just feel like phrases that makes sense to my life right now. From Hamilton… We’re finally on the road, we’ve had quite a run… We get the job done… of course that doesn’t actually make any literal sense in context,…
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Route planning: the distance and time expectation
Route plan so far, more stops to be added, this just gives me a baseline. The trip will be a minimum of 12k miles and 200 hours of driving. 2/3 of the driving is on the way there, as this route assumed just heading straight home from Denali. Adding a stop at Kenai would add…
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Getting ready to go north
It’s been a while since I took a proper trip. And yet, I have not been staying still. I started traveling essentially as soon as I had control over it. In childhood, my parents tended to center travel around a fixed location, a weekend house they built on the opposite side of the city…
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Update at the apex of my 2020 cross-country road trip
2020 08 20 I feel kind of bad that I haven’t been blogging along the way on this trip. I’ve been updating Facebook and sometimes Twitter and Instagram, so see my personal social feeds for the blow-by-blow. I’ve been on the road for a little over three weeks now, on a trip that will eventually…