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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 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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