Strangely inspiring and comforting, it makes the current state of the world feel natural.

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Where would J-Gatz party if he were around today, and not, uh...fictional?

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When you find the fare you were going to book just went up.

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My second semester was everything I'd wanted from my first.

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Everything was fried separately before assembly; be prepared to feel incapacitated.

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I'm not sure I'd ever drive through Yellowstone; on a bike, I felt like I was going too fast.

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You have to make freelancing into a full-time job, even when it isn’t.

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Staring at the chips, I think what I'll do with my winnings in Ketchikan, the final port.

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Aaron Hamburger's questions to help writers transcend the way they normally see a place.

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Entry couldn't be easier.

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"At night it looks like a glowing lantern."

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Road rage is nothing compared to this.

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And so began another epic struggle for my preexisting rights as a traveling blind man.

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If you could go anywhere in the world, where would it be? What if you could go everywhere?

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World

It was the first time I heard the howl of coyotes, the first time I slept under the open sky.

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I got off my saddle and waddled to a quiet spot near a meadow and took in the scene.

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I started rock climbing last summer. I wish I'd started when I was in diapers.

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Sports

Sea stacks are the kind of rock formations you’d expect to see in a dream.

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Sports

Transport yourself to a sun-soaked (and booze-soaked) flotilla in the Tyrrhenian Sea.

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He kept our minds from wandering to the cannibal scene in Alive.

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