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#4 Dates, Dives, and Diadems
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As my departure for Japan draws ever closer, I find myself fascinated with the mundane experiences of my home. Anyone who has moved a great deal of distance from their…
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#3 Welcome to the Jungle
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#3 Welcome to the Jungle Chicago. The city of rebels. From the upsetting, upchuck-inducing stockyards of Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle to Theodore Dreiser’s warning tale of the indefinite climb up…
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#2 Boxcars and Broken Brakes
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#2 Boxcars and Broken Brakes When I was a kid, our first home was right next to the train tracks. And I mean coal cars traveling at 45mph was less…
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#1 “I’m Going on an Adventure”
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At the age of thirty-two, I have now moved thirty-four times in my life. My family seems to think I’m possessed by some spirit of wanderlust, a devil of adventure…
A Storied Saunter
A Literary and Travel Blog for Those Who Wander the Real and Imaginative Worlds
Charles “Cody” Childers
“They who never go to the holy land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds, but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense” – Henry David Thoreau