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In “Desert Solitaire”, Edward Abbey notes:
“A man on foot, on horseback or on a bicycle will see more, feel more, enjoy more in one mile than the motorized tourists can in a hundred miles. Better to idle through one park in two weeks than try to race through a dozen in the same amount of time. Those who are familiar with both modes of travel know from experience that this is true; the rest have only to make the experiment to discover the same truth for themselves.”
Category Archives: day off thoughts
La Carmen
Almost five years ago, I went out to pick up Chinese food. When I got home with it, this hot mess was drunkenly double fisted in my kitchen and —despite having never met — we immediately connected, bullshitting and bantering … Continue reading
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World View Fuckin’ Scenic
Yes, it took me 90 days to post this. So what? Just get in the time machine of your mind and pretend its October 2021. You know, that cozy place between Delta and Omicron when nothing hurt and everything was … Continue reading
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Forty Five Days Later
On a ten mile commute to visit my cousin (aka my dentist), I imagine I’m out on the southern tier, again. Or the northern tier, again. Or any tier anywhere, ever. I self-hallucinate my way into some sort of geographical … Continue reading
Hoping for a Tail Wind 