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I also used the credit card to pay for the motel room in Georgia a couple weeks ago. And why have I bothered volunteering this information? ...

The cop proceeded to do all the usual stuff, like ask for my ID and SSN (to which, like always, I claimed ignorance). He then wrote up a rep...

I didn't have enough time Wednesday night to do everything I needed to do at REI, so I slept right around the corner and went back to th...

Not much to say about early yesterday. First I walked a loop around downtown Nashville, then I headed south toward Brentwood. After about 10...

I've been thinking about a couple things I said in my Evansville post; things that came out wrong and probably made me sound, well, ungr...

Wow! Now that was a train ride! Doing it alone without anyone's assistance is way the hell different than shadowing a couple seasoned ho...

Just went thru Springfield, TN; getting close to Nashville. I hope this train stops there. It hasn't stopped yet. Been hauling ass! I...

We've reached cruising altitude and are now at least 20 or 30 miles into Kentucky. I think some maintenance people may have seen me when...

I'm about 3.5 miles from Brad's house and, as you may have figured out already, it looks like I found my ride. This shipping contain...

While I'm thinking about it, check out this page . It's a discussion someone started on a squatter site about one of my videos. I ju...

I received an e-mail this morning that instantly inspired me and will surely help my state of mind once it starts getting tough out there an...

Just after crossing the Illinois/Indiana state line last Thursday, while still in the truck, I called Brad to find out a good place for Pat ...

I've been listening to Brad's Motley Crue Shout at the Devil CD because for too many years I have been deprived of one of rock and ...

All right, so let's see if I can stop talking about myself and start talking about some of the people I meet. Patrick Clancey is a train...

While reading my recent blog posts a couple days ago, I realized something: I tend to write a lot about where I am and what's going on w...

I thought we were going to continue heading toward Owensboro, Kentucky this afternoon and evening, but we're still in or near Columbia, ...

Hey Brad (Fishbone): We'll be arriving in Owensboro tonight to deliver a load, but they won't accept the load until Friday, so I was...

We made it to Portland today at about noon or 1:00 PM local time. So it took less than two and a half days to get from Atlanta to Portland. ...

Did anyone think I was bullshitting about cutting off all my hair? I ended up cutting it entirely with scissors because the clippers just wo...

I checked out of the motel yesterday morning and went straight to the crappy on-ramp where I'd had no luck two days earlier, but my luck...

Long story short: The cop was a total prickwad asshole. He treated me like I was wasting his time, telling me I could walk to the motel down...

After putting all my stuff under the overpass, I returned to my tent to remove the stakes. (I lost one stake in the water, which was 6-8 inc...

With most of my stuff near the on-ramp's asphalt surface, I looked around for some kind of shelter. If my stuff had been dry and packed,...

There was higher ground about fifty feet away from my tent, so that's where I placed my backpack and camera bag before returning to the ...

There was higher ground about fifty feet away from my tent, so that's where I placed my backpack and camera bag before returning to the ...

Only a few minutes after making the assessment that I was in OK shape, I looked out the tent door into the vestibule, where I'd left my ...

On the way back toward the interstate from downtown Metter Wednesday night, it began raining lightly; more like a mist than a true rain. It ...

Yesterday morning began with a two-mile walk to I-16, after sleeping in a dormant cotton field. At this exit there was one tiny "truck ...

So you thought I was exaggerating when I said I have hundreds of bug bites on my arms and legs, huh? Well, I'm not sure how much you can...

I just realized I've walked six miles in the wrong fucking direction. So in a couple hours from now, I will have walked 12 miles to nowh...

I find money almost every day when I walk. Not much, but some. Thursday I found a penny. Friday I found two pennies. Saturday two nickels. A...

Hair on.

All right, I'm not actually bound for Atlanta yet. Instead, I'm sitting on a guardrail beside the on-ramp from US 280 to I-16 West. ...

Yesterday I went ahead and waited by the I-95 on-ramp, rather than just setting up camp early. Half an hour later I was riding back to Savan...

My plan as of this morning was to continue walking south on US 17, but that plan has changed at least twice already. Upon reaching Midway, G...

I'm learning quickly that the second day of a new trek is always the toughest. Treadmill conditioning with 40 lbs on my back is not the ...

Well, I'm outta Savannah. Yesterday at 11:00, after Jay went to work at the Olive Garden, I did a small load of laundry, took a shower, ...

Having visited with Jay for just over a week now, I'll be heading out of Savannah tomorrow (Thursday) to begin Aimless 2008. I've ha...

Jay and I will be leaving for Savannah in a couple hours. I imagine I'll be on the road for real in about a week. -- Aimless Aimless Vid...

I did it! I just walked 12 miles in less than 4 hours (3:57), slightly uphill the entire way, carrying 4 lbs more than I had been carrying o...

Fuck basketball. I'm going crazy this month with the anticipation of riding freight trains. In the 8 months since my first and only ride...

As an Ohio State fan, if I was on the NCAA tournament selection committee, I would leave out the Buckeyes. Badger, I've been meaning to ...

I've been seriously considering shaving my head before I leave Jay's place in Savannah. That would be a good time to do it because m...

Anyone remember the passage I quoted from On the Road a couple months ago, about how much work is involved in hitchhiking? In an interview,...

From Wes Modes : Freight-hopping. "It's a kick in the ass. It's a lot of fun," Duffy Littlejohn says. "It is one of t...

Unless something really weird happens, Aimless 2008 will begin in two or three weeks. On March 18th I'll be leaving central Ohio to help...

Is it really possible for a candidate to run on the platforms of change and experience at the same time? Isn't that like saying, "I...

Yesterday I sat and thought. That's all I did. I thought about pizza and Aimless and Missy and probably some other things, too. You may ...

Sometimes I wonder if maybe I have a mild form of Tourette Syndrome. Donkey balls! -- Aimless Aimless Video Evidence

From some web site : Step 5. Try spinning the dough in the air. This is certainly not required, but it's a lot of fun! It also helps to ...

For approximately exactly the last 21 days, when I've watched hockey games on a certain regional sports channel, I've noticed a seri...

For those of you who thought I'd given up on the pizzeria opportunity a few weeks ago, I hadn't. I gave it another chance. (The only...

Yeah, uh, it looks like the pizzeria opportunity is no more. And I'll tell ya what: I don't care. In fact, it was me who ended the t...

"John Doe" from Florida e-mailed me this morning with the following message: i'd just wanted to say that i graduated from a fl...

If things work out right, I'm going to hang out tonight with someone I met on the road last summer. I've mentioned Jason Stanish at ...

Here are a couple reasons why I love New York City: 1) New Yorkers actually walk, read, and think; 2) The major pizza chains have been almos...

Wow, what a game! I've been kinda rooting for the Giants during the playoffs, mostly because they played the Patriots so close in Game 1...

A few nights ago my buddy Jeff called me. As we talked about food and restaurants, he mentioned a BBC show called Ramsay's Kitchen Night...

Well, I don't see the pizzeria thing happening. I most certainly want to do it, but apparently my only location option would be the seco...

I have a very important question for everyone: When you hear the term "southern-style food," what comes to your mind? --> What ...

As I drove to and from Germantown (near Dayton) yesterday, I heard a couple songs on the radio that really caught my attention. The first on...

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