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Welcome to Kentucky Across the Big Sandy, Kentucky greets us with an oil refinery. It’s a Dante-esque scene, with flames blazing from pipes that pierce the skyline, steam and smoke everywhere. An orange backdrop of the setting sun compounds the effect. Storage tanks up on the hill are blithely painted with a big “Welcome to” sign, …
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Packed We’re running out of room. Right. You can only take one small bag. Right. No, really. I’ve got a small carry on. And a backpack. It can sit under my feet. Cool. My kayak paddle will be by your head. Yup, got it. With the car packed (really packed) idling and pointed …
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Postcard from the Road: Somewhere over the Midwest at 33,000 feet Out the window, the North American continent glides slowly by at 552 mph. Last week it took all day to cross a time zone — a long day, making good time. Today, three time zones will come and go in as many hours. Time …
Postcard from the Road: Portland, 9:51pm Left Emily in Hood River this morning. Not an easy thing, But she has a bunch of friends already, and a job, and a place to live, and a vigorous sense of adventure. She’ll be better than fine. Back in Portland, met up with Doryman, who was on his …
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Postcard from the Road: The aisles of Powell’s City of Books in Portland, which takes up several floors of a full city block. And then some. We drove all the way across Oregon in the rain along the Columbia Gorge. Passed through Hood River in the dark, arrived in Portland exhausted. Decided to head straight …
Postcard from the Road: Spent the night in Boise, at the far edge of Mountain Time. The hotel window looks out over the interstate. After midnight, tumbleweeds scurry down the highway like stray dogs, passing from one dim, yellowed skirt caste by a streetlight to the next. Moving too fast to stop and post. …
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Postcard from the Road: Too tired to do much tonight. We’re crossing the country at a rate of a Time Zone per day. Sixteen hours of driving, and close to 1000 miles. It began in the dark and snow and ended in the dark. At least the snow part is over for …
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