Travel Journal
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Park Ridge, IL, USA to Huaraz, PE
“Embrace the risk”, says Henry Brown’s subconscious, precisely the opposite of what comes naturally to his cautious, risk-assessing self. Mr. Brown is Paddington’s foster father from the children’s books (played by the Earl of Grantham from ‘Downton Abbey’), and the risk he is embracing is getting on a plane and flying from his comfortable home… Read more…
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Park Ridge, IL to Skaneateles, NY to Park Ridge, IL
Days 1-21 For the fifth time in 1300 days of our nomadacy, we are lucky to be able to make a lengthy pause at Mom & Dad’s house. And for the second time, we made the stay into a sandwich, with an Amtrak-aided excursion in the middle, to and from Rett’s Dad’s house in New… Read more…
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Memphis, TN to Park Ridge, IL
We might have seen more on the day that we left Memphis than we did in the whole week prior. That’s the value of being “forced” out of our comfortable AirBNB twelve hours before our train left for Chicago (but I didn’t feel guilty for doing the South America-prep while holed in Memphis either). Luckily… Read more…
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Holly Springs, MS to Memphis, TN
We had a big day for the final segment of our 8-month sojourn of the eastern half of the United States. Beginning last August near Syracuse, a city in New York named after a major center of the ancient world, we coincidentally are ending in Memphis, a city in Tennessee named after another major center… Read more…
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Oxford, MS to Holly Springs, MS
Even with five days of hospitality and no bike riding, we still avoided figuring out our next steps until just yesterday. Our original idea when heading toward Chicago had been to cross back and forth over the Mississippi River to “collect” as many states as possible. But a closer study of the maps showed (and… Read more…
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New Houlka, MS to Oxford, MS
The south wind hadn’t quite cranked up to its predicted 40mph gusts, but it was unusually breezy for early morning, and the massive amount of air it had already dragged up from the Gulf bubbled the temperature above 72°F by 8am! We were sad to leave one of the best AirBNBs we’ve ever stayed in,… Read more…
