Maggie Lucas
Jane Kansas
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Ah! The Great Outdoors
Day 39 See Jane.Jane is a happy camper camper, happy.Jane got a ride to Fargo, North Dakota.(Her Binford friend, Magnhild, came into the big smoke to shop.)Jane is camped in room 159 of the Select Inn.It is raining outside.Janie doesn’t care!She’s not going out again today.If Janie wants to get wet she will get wet […]
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Duck and Cover
If you like old machinery with big ass buttons and ten ton doors served up with old time politics and technology used for E-ville and not good, boy, do I have the place for you. The Ronald Reagan Minuteman Missile site has been open to the public for less than a year but not so […]
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The Word is Out
Two nice guys and good writers have written about my Walking the Walk. Parker Donham lives in Nova Scotia and writes Contrarian. Mike Levin lives in Ottawa and writes Unfolding. He’s written twice about this trip: “Solitude and Tornadoes” & “Misery, Bliss and the Jane Kansas Travelogue”.
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Binford, North Dakota
Day 36 June 4 Day 35Fessenden to east of Cathay, North Dakota23 miles (37 kms)Lovely day despite my starting out bitchy. Near Cathay a dog follows me for three miles, having the time of her life—in muck, then grass, sniffing into the wind. It gets to be worrisome so I stop at Cathay and rap […]
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More North Dakota
Day 31 May 30, Day 30Turtle Lake to McClusky, North Dakota21.8 miles (35.08 kms)Near the end of the day, getting towards the McClusky Canal which I will follow to the Lonetree Wildlife Management Area, a strange little building hoves up in the distance. I am on a gravel road where two vehicles have passed me […]
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Back To The Future Part I
Day 26 The McClusky Canal Day 26Turtle Lake to West Park Lake, North Dakota20.8 miles (33.47 kms) Day 26 What is this handsome bird? Just out of Turtle Lake I see the McClusky Canal and its Maintenance Roads on either side. It’s a beautiful day and I take the canal. The walking is good. In […]
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North Dakota Part One
Day 21 The bucket holds six Suburbans Day 21Medicine Hat, Alberta to Havre, Montana to Pick City, North Dakota0 milesI am falling behind in things I want to write here. I get a ride from Medicine Hat to Havre with Tyrone Smith, who I will write about soon. Joyce drives me to the gas station […]
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Medicine Hat
Day 15 Joyce Yamamoto I have made it to Medicine Hat, Alberta and the home of my good friend Joyce and her mother, Amy. I have known Joyce for 27 years. Terrifying that the numbers get so big. On April 4, 1983 I was living in Toronto and working as a picture framer. I had […]
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Kansas Walks the Walk
Day 2 Montana Moocows Not just the cows, but most creatures I pass cannot believe their eyes—that some lunatic is walking. Horses here are beautiful, and mostly they come as close to me as they can, and once I feed two of them some of my bagged peeled baby carrots. They come for a look […]
