Category Archives: Travel

The art and practice of wandering

In Bruges

The train from Antwerp to Bruges takes less than two hours, a rattling across low green fields and through villages with narrow block houses. Above, gray skies that would be more or less a constant for the next week and … Continue reading

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Big Sticky Now Available!

As many of you already know, one of the ways I support my travel addiction and vagabondish lifestyle is by developing iPhone applications. We all have to earn a living, and as far as it goes, iPhone development gives me … Continue reading

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A Week in Antwerp

A shuttle collects Paulis, Julia, Adam and I from the Hanjin Palermo, and I watch the ship fall away behind us before disappearing entirely in the tangle of stacked containers and heavy machinery. After a brief detour where I have … Continue reading

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Across the Atlantic by Cargo Ship

It’s six in the evening on the day I’m supposed to leave Charleston on the Hanjin Palermo, bound for Antwerp, and I haven’t heard a thing. Emails to my freighter agent have gone unanswered; repeated calls get only an answering … Continue reading

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South to Charleston

When I finally get my computer back in order, time passes quickly. The nearest bus into D.C. is a couple miles away, and the heat and my heavy workload keep me holed up, and I never make it into the … Continue reading

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New York, New York

I step out of Penn Station in New York to a warm evening almost twenty-four hours after the time I boarded my train in Chicago (for an account of that journey, check out my guest post, coming soon over at … Continue reading

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Greyhound Buses and a Deep-Dish Pizza

That night in Salt Lake City, there’s a point where I’m sure I’ll have to spend the night on the sticky station floor. As of a few days before, my Amtrak ticket to Chicago had been canceled due to severe … Continue reading

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The Rubber Hits the Road

And so it begins. Early on the morning of June 4, I climbed into the family car with my two sisters and parents for a week of camping in southern Utah and, for me, the start of a three-year journey … Continue reading

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Eastbound

Early tomorrow morning, I’ll leave the town I’ve called home since I was four years old, and I won’t see it again for the next three years. The business of wrapping up work projects, packing, and condensing my life has … Continue reading

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Up Kootenai Creek

The Bitterroot valley has gone from a colder-than-average April to a May in the 70s. Those warm temperatures, occasional thunderstorms, and a twice average mountain snowpack, mean that the creeks are roaring out of the canyons and the river is … Continue reading

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