10 October 2007 – Portland, Oregon

Thursday, October 11th, 2007

I have to climb…
Matt and Della fed us and hugged us and sent us on our way, this time via the Greyhound bus from Spokane to Portland. Along the way we read and talked and slept, eating goat cheese and pita chips and some wonderful organic apples from a local Spokane grower. The […]

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8 October 2007 – Spokane, Washington

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007

Look up at the mountain…
Well, we looked down at the mountains, there from our unnatural high, traveling miles above the Earth in a metal tube filled with people and plans and packets of peanuts. What’s most noticeable to me from the air is the water: the rivers winding brown, the circles of irrigation stretching […]

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5 October 2007 – Deerfield, Illinois

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

…oh yeah, to reach there…
We were back in an old haunt. We rolled into Chicago’s Union Station only 90 minutes late, then headed north on the Metra to Northbrook station, where we were met by our next host, Doug. As we drove through Northbrook, to his home where we would be staying […]

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1 October, 2007 – Lewisburg, West Virginia

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

…guess I’ll take my time…
Miles From Nowhere has been rattling around in my head for days now, so I’m going to keep following it, to see where it leads me as we journey. Cat Stevens was with me all through high school and into college. He sang what my heart was singing, in […]

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Wild West Virginia

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007

In an unexpected turn of events it is Sally updating the travel blog! The wi-fi at McDonalds wouldn’t let Tim get on! So it’s me.
We’ve been treated to a cabin on the side of a mountain near Hinton, WV. Our hosts John and Lynn have been kind and generous and we are relishing […]

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