Tag Archives: Pennsylvania

Getting to Normal

I am writing this essay more than a decade after I made a camping/biking trip to the Midwest. On that trip, as with similar excursions in 2009 and 2011, I brought my (now ancient) Flip camera with me and captured some video. (The camera was hand-held, hence the shakiness of many of the shots linkedContinue reading “Getting to Normal”

Cycling the Pine Creek Trail: The Rhetoric of Travel

“Act-Suffer-Learn” My wife telling me “You’re too old to go off by yourself like that” was what clinched it for me.  I had been discussing with her a plan to go on a four-day camping trip to remote north-central Pennsylvania, alone, and to bike the Pine Creek Trail, which runs about 63 miles from WellsboroContinue reading “Cycling the Pine Creek Trail: The Rhetoric of Travel”