Leaving Chicago on the 5:45 pm Cardinal. By this time tomorrow, I'll be in Ashland (KY). Had a wonderful time at the reading. The r...

Chicago -- Getting out of River City is always fraught. Or, at least, it seems that way lately. I tell myself it's important ...

[Indianapolis:] Part of me wanted to miss the bus, or for something to go wrong in Louisville just so I could have one more minute w...

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” -Robert Louis Stevenson “A journey is...

You cannot create experience. You must undergo it. - Camus I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great...

The train station in Carlinville, Illinois is nothing more than a ventilated brick box. Cement floor, a single bench, no heat for the winter...

I'm not so used to cities at night anymore. The vast silence of steel and false night lights gleaming in the darkness – some apocalyptic...

Truckin', I'm a goin home. Whoa whoa baby, back where I belong, Back home, sit down and patch my bones, and get back truckin' on...

"I love it when a plan comes together." - John "Hannibal" Smith  The original title of this entry was going to be "...

This one's for Dave Cuckler and Jim Beaudry. So my plans -- in as much as I've made them, such as they are -- are set. I'm leavi...