Beauty for Ashes Pt. 2 After a 105r portage the next morning, G2 entered the many-islanded Lake Insula. As always, Astrid had read what she considered to be a relevant book before the trip. This time it was The Voyageur by Grace Lee Nute, a historical study on the men who moved productsContinue reading “Out of Myself I Go: Beauty for Ashes Pt. 2”
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Out of Myself I Go: Prologue
Theodore Roosevelt National Park “ ‘Out of my country and myself I go*’. I wish to take a dive among new conditions for a while, as into another element. I have nothing to do with my friends or my affections for the time; when I came away, I left my heart at home in aContinue reading “Out of Myself I Go: Prologue”
Hiking The Manistee River Trail Loop Solo, But Never Alone
Manistee River Trail Bluff “Sometimes you just have to walk,” Astrid said. She was talking to her brother on his front porch as his sweet little girls raced by in their plastic cars. He had recalled the time when he walked home from a wedding in town, on a long back road in the darkContinue reading “Hiking The Manistee River Trail Loop Solo, But Never Alone”
Painting a Deck with Robert Louis Stevenson and a Donkey
For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. Stevenson, RobertContinue reading “Painting a Deck with Robert Louis Stevenson and a Donkey”
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