Travel
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Things I Thought While Sitting
September 19, 2017 Sometimes I think this is what it must be like out there. In…
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The Problem with You Not Being Here
September 26, 2017 The journey’s too big. Too many details are on this single line we…
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I Was Here
September 27, 2017 On the 27th day of the journey I woke up in Rabanal, a…
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Hot Damp Lumps
October 3, 2017 Today we crossed the marker that is 100 kilometers from Santiago: we are…
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The Storm before the Calm
October 5, 2017 What is the difference between mist and fog? Whatever it was, it loomed…
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Destination Day
October 6, 2017 On the 36th day of the journey, I left the albergue in Monte…
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To the End of the Earth and the Coast of Death
October 8, 2017 Santiago de Compostela is the end of the pilgrimage. But it can not…
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My Travel Guide
October 9, 2017 I stumbled across a poem by Constantine Petrou Cavafy called Ithaka. As I…
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Idyll at San Roque
October 10, 2017 This, the 40th morning, was miserably cold. I wore both my sweaters and…
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Mary’s Bucket of Blood
Andros Island, Bahamas My father, our guide Prescott, and I were driving from Red Bays to…
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Breakfast at the Coffee Shop
I wanted to eat the yam in my cupboard for lunch, so for breakfast I walked…
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The Second of Three Endings
October 11, 2017 On the 41st day of walking, I walked three kilometers up out of Finisterre…