Posted on August 6, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
CHICAGO – I’ve done a lot of travelogues before, and I have a bad habit of stating on the record that I intend to do an entry from somewhere. Most of the time I make myself live up to the promise, but every once in a while I forget, or the circumstances make it not [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
WATERLOO, Ind. – Good morning…
I set the alarm clock on my phone for 6 a.m., and rolled out of bed not too long after that. The sun hadn’t quite risen yet, but we were pulling into Toledo. Which meant I had to make sure the window curtain was totally shut, and it was.
We were supposed [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
PITTSBURGH – I did manage to stay up this far, and as we pull into the Steel City we’re rolling past a neon sign-bedecked Heinz factory. The central marquee is an animated ketchup bottle. It’s pretty cool.
Speaking of designed things, I studied a lot of planning and design stuff in college and that part of [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
CONNELLSVILLE, Pa. – You know you’re really in the countryside when you have no cell phone signal whatsoever. Miles and miles with nothing but the little X next to the power pole in the upper-right hand corner of the screen, even though you’re technically in the same state as the wired metropolis you call home.
Such [...]
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Posted on August 6, 2008 by offthebeatentrack
MARTINSBURG, W. Va. – I never really have been much of a country boy. I was born and raised in one big city, then went to college in another and still live there. I prefer carrying an iPod and a subway pass to a fife and a fiddle.
But the scenery as we’ve rolled through West [...]
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