Category: Transportation
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Salt, Coal & Chemicals
A week in Charleston, West Virginia proved to me, once again, that I often find surprises in unexpected places. My 86-year-old mother lived here in 1941. Her father was an engineer for Union Carbide, which should have been a clue that this capitol city of 50,000 people located at the confluence of the Elk and…
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Wagon Trains & Buckypaper
I’m flying east across the USA from Seattle, Washington. I’ve brought along my copy of the National Trails System Map, compliments of the National Park System and my friend Joey McBayer. I switch between the paper version and staring out the window at the mountains, lakes, mesas, valleys, and hundreds of miles of land that…
Solivagant USA 