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Angle to Key West: All Kinds of Weather (11/15)
South of Savanna, Illinois – October 15, 2012 Today was beautiful. The water still as glass. The skies blue. The sun warm on my skin. It never ceased, never changed, it just stayed beautiful all day....
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Angle to Key West: Connections (10/16)
Cordova, Illinois – October 16, 2012 From first grade on, Judy and Suzie have been best friends. They slipped apart a bit after grade school, but a few years later they were both looking to buy a...
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Angle to Key West: Inside Scoop (10/17)
Quad Cities, Mississippi River – October 17, 2012 Inside information beats guesses anytime. It gets you picked up between rainstorms by Harlan and Suzie King. It gets the Looksha a ride on a flatbed...
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Angle to Key West: Shiver (10/18)
North of Muscatine, Iowa – October 18, 2012 The rain soaked my tent as soon as I pulled it out of the hatch. I set it up with fingers too numb to feel anything, then dove inside, pulling out my...
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Angle to Key West: Trail Family (10/19)
Tipton, Iowa – October 19, 2012 I crashed under a pavilion in Muscatine’s riverfront park. The place was empty other than a few people running over to use the bathroom and give me odd looks as I...
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Angle to Key West: Windigo (10/20)
Tipton, IA – October 20, 2012 Sitting in a farm-house in the middle of Iowa seems like an odd place to tell a story I heard on Isle Royale, but the story is a good one on the eve of a close election,...
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Angle to Key West: Parents (10/21)
Tipton, Iowa – October 21, 2012 I opened the package my dad sent. Three pairs of gloves poured out even though I only asked for one. He sent me a fleece face mask too, just in case I needed it. Gesh’s...
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Angle to Key West: Trail Porn (10/22)
Tipton, Iowa – October 22, 2012 Over the past days, Gesh and I have watched a stack of videos about long-distance hiking. Movies about thru-hikes, about the trails, about the characters along the way....
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Angle to Key West: Hard to Leave
Tipton, Iowa – October 23, 2012 Until you stop, you forget how nice it is to flick a switch and fill a room with light, to hear the wind beat against sturdy walls, to sprawl out on a queen sized...
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Angle to Key West: The Next Friend (10/24)
Past Lock 17 – October 24, 2012 The loneliest moments are goodbyes. The last hug, the last wave, the last glimpse of a friend’s truck disappearing down the street. Even standing in a city, in a...
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Angle to Key West: In It (10/25)
Above Lock 18 – October 25, 2012 Thunder broke through the rain’s dull patter, shattered it like dropped glass, then rolled across the big river, fading then finding strength again, echoing from bank...
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Angle to Key West: Crooked Streets (10/26)
Upper Mississippi River Mile 392 – October 26, 2012 Burlington, Iowa, doesn’t have much on San Francisco, but it’s got a street to rival Lombard for the crookedest in the world. It’s a winding brick...
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Angle to Key West: Lock 19 (10/28)
Upper Mississippi Mile 350 – October 28, 2012 “I heard you could fit 15 barges and a tug in here at one time,” I said to the lockman. “Sixteen,” he said. “Sometimes they put an empty one next to the...
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