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Tales from a 7-Month Trek by Foot

A Pig in the Woods and Other Outcomes
“A hog?” He was incredulous. “What’s a pig doin’ in the woods?” I laughed. “A hawk,” I said, like it rhymed with lock. “You know.” I held out my arms…
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Of Bears and Ants
“Her head”—Jill made a wide oh with her arms—“fit like this.” She breathed as if to fill her nostrils with the musk of fur and sighed like a purr. I…
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Walking the East Coast
A serial memoir. Can I tell you about the time I lived for half a year out of a backpack?Can you tell me about your own walks in life so we can shape…
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Looking for Love in All the Places
A lake called Ghost, a watching hawk, and tiny frogs formed from soil and bark are pieces of the setting for the drafting of a letter. The draftee, a…
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Mike D and the Exquisite Jade Lincoln
For two hundred days, I wore a turtle’s shell on my back. I walked, and I rode, and I walked some more. I slept in hostel bunk beds, in fields, and on…
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Baltimore Blue
I’m sure I envisioned a table, steaming blue crab piled high. New friends, eyes and lips glistening with candlelight, melted butter, and story. I’m…
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Empty and Full on a Northbound Greyhound
The weight of my pack was shocking. So was the emptiness of the Greyhound station in Charleston, West Virginia. Maybe the fact that this was no longer a…
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