ex chaos expedio

Until today, I’ve mostly just been winging it on this trip… I hadn’t made plans to occupy my time (or I had and the plan fell through as at Paso Robles)

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I wandered a bit more after writing this afternoon’s rambling missive and wound up (by design, certainly, though on a sort of random path) at Corrales restaurant. Last night, on a search

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It’s to be expected, I suppose, but it sure doesn’t feel like November 21st here in Southern California. The sun is bright in a partially hazy sky… it seems like there

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/// missing data. ///original paper journals to be consulted.

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Portland has turned out to be a town I would like to have spent more time in. I walked the length and breadth of the downtown area a few times over in the

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The best thing about my first day in Portland was the shower. That’s not a backhanded way of saying Portland was underwhelming… I just really needed to take a shower. I kept

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I saw my first wild Bald Eagle this morning, landing gracefully on a sort of mudflat crowding in on the fringes of a broad series of lakes and marshy areas through which we’

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The impetus behind taking this trip has, from the start, been a bit unclear even to me. I could think up some reasons, but ultimately it all comes down to the fact that

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We coasted down out of the forested mountains and into the northern bay area just as the sun was setting. In Sacramento, most of the people who’d been sharing the train with

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This is a neat looking little town, though all neat looking little towns make me think they’re carefully constructed but inauthentic neat looking little towns. Lake Tahoe is away somewhere to the

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I’m having a late breakfast in the lounge car after spending an hour or so chatting with my seat neighbor Marco. He told me he’s been working for the past 7

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Coming down out of the highlands of Colorado offered even more spectacular scenery than going up into the mountains earlier this morning. Where that was the green and white of ski country — a

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