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Dust Bowl Tour: Road Trip Revelations

Posted on October 14, 2016 by

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2,459 miles. Six days. Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin. Here are my road trip revelations: Listen to the locals. At the BBQ joint last night, the lady behind the counter told me that their mac and cheese was pretty good… Continue Reading “Dust Bowl Tour: Road Trip Revelations”

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Dust Bowl Tour Day 3

Posted on October 12, 2016 by

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In a cemetery down a dirt road off the highway from Guymon to Goodwell in the Oklahoma Panhandle, an area called No Man’s Land by the locals, there are several handmade headstones. This one was for a baby who died in 1929. Life was… Continue Reading “Dust Bowl Tour Day 3”

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Dust Bowl Tour Day 2

Posted on October 11, 2016 by

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It’s so easy to see how it could happen. The land is so completely flat. There aren’t the rises in the distance like the hills bordering farmland in Wisconsin, where you sense that the original settlers decided to stop cutting down trees and let… Continue Reading “Dust Bowl Tour Day 2”

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Dust Bowl Tour Day 1

Posted on October 10, 2016 by

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You could do worse than to drive from Wisconsin to Iowa. You could stay in a long flat motel in Osceola, Iowa, that claims to be the best in the U.S., walk outside in the morning and breathe in the smell of frying ham.… Continue Reading “Dust Bowl Tour Day 1”

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