Travel to the Edge of the World
"I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list." - Susan Sontag In 1998, I had a friend who was living in Los Angeles and who,...
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roadoflife66
- Mar 27, 2021
- 9 min
The Lincoln Highway
“The Lincoln Highway is destined to be a much-traveled road. Already the motorists of the West are turning the hoods of their motor cars...
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roadoflife66
- Mar 24, 2021
- 13 min
St. Augustine at New Year's
“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous Up until today, my previous travel posts have taken a long...
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roadoflife66
- Mar 13, 2021
- 10 min
New Orleans, With a Side of Mardi Gras
In 1995, I was working as a word processing manager for a law firm in downtown Seattle, on the 70th floor of the Columbia Center. I had...
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roadoflife66
- Feb 21, 2021
- 16 min
O Canada - The Return to Vancouver
“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer...
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roadoflife66
- Jan 31, 2021
- 11 min
O Canada - Prince Edward Island and Quebec City
At the end of the last post, I had arrived at the point of apogee of my journey and was preparing to commence the return trek back across...
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roadoflife66
- Jan 24, 2021
- 13 min
O Canada - The Maritimes
"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes In the previous post, I...
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roadoflife66
- Jan 17, 2021
- 8 min
O Canada - Ottawa and Montreal
Before diving into Part III of the cross-Canada story, I need to pivot to another story -- a topic that was very much on the minds and...
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roadoflife66
- Jan 10, 2021
- 6 min
O Canada - Toronto and Niagara Falls
Welcome back to this multi-part tale of a trans-Canada adventure. Before picking up where I left off, I want to wish everyone a very...
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roadoflife66
- Dec 20, 2020
- 10 min
O Canada - The Western Provinces
Amelia Earhart, famed aviation pioneer and author, once said, “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.” Few things in life can be more...
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roadoflife66
- Dec 13, 2020
- 9 min
The Last State Visited
In 2002, I set my mind to completing my goal of visiting all 50 states. There was just one remaining then, and somehow, through all of...
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roadoflife66
- Dec 6, 2020
- 5 min
The First American Highway System
If you’ve been traveling around the United States, or just driving around locally, you have undoubtedly seen the iconic black-and-white...
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roadoflife66
- Nov 29, 2020
- 11 min
Going to Extremes
I don't remember when it started, but at some point, I decided to add another set of goals to my collection of travel experiences --...
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roadoflife66
- Nov 22, 2020
- 3 min
Travel in the Face of COVID-19
I had another topic in mind for this week's post, but because of recent spikes in daily coronavirus infection rates, and the holidays...
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roadoflife66
- Nov 15, 2020
- 8 min
North to Alaska!
Canadian writer, Margaret Atwood, once wrote about the allure of the north in an article for Canada's Saturday Night, a now-defunct...
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roadoflife66
- Nov 8, 2020
- 5 min
What Counts as a Visit?
If you have been pursuing an all-50-states travel goal or even the longer all-3,143-counties goal, you've probably developed your own...
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roadoflife66
- Oct 31, 2020
- 8 min
All 50 States + DC
Before you can claim that you have visited all 3,143 counties, you will inevitably wind up completing a travel goal of much smaller...
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roadoflife66
- Oct 24, 2020
- 3 min
The U.S. Map of Counties
Keeping track of each county as you pass through them is a lot easier when you have a map, especially one that is broken down by county....
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roadoflife66
- Oct 16, 2020
- 3 min
Extra Miler Club
In 1996, Seattle's local KING 5 TV station ran a segment on Evening Magazine that featured a Wisconsin couple, Ted and Jane Tofari, who...
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roadoflife66
- Oct 15, 2020
- 2 min
. . . Starting in the Middle . . .
Twenty-five years ago, I decided I would visit every county in the United States. It began as a quirky idea at a time in my life when the...
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