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Detroit Revisted: The unbeaten path

Fifteen years later, I was back in Detroit. On my first, long ago trip, two weeks before 9/11, I left

This has been a sad summer (2012) of watching the Union Pacific prepare to swallow up the Southern Pacific. Already

“The Santa Fe has a reputation for speed.” That phrase from a business article rings true. The BNSF habitually attaches

After many years of solo riding, I was bringing along someone else for the first time — a coworker who

I’d bought a discounted round-trip Greyhound ticket to Salt Lake, my jumping-off point. I looked through the bus window and saw

Bruce came by, with plans that lifted me out of my post-injury depression. After committing sedition for a couple days,

In another life I had time to ride freight trains around the West, through thousands of miles of scenery that

After 17 months — too long a time — I was back sticking a thumb in DHS’s eye. In June

For three days in 2003 I had relentlessly pushed a rental car through the splendors of western Colorado, what they

After six years, I saw the Colorado outlaw known as TTK again in Fort Collins, Colorado. I’d slept behind a