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<h3><a href="/2009/apr/13/strangers-on-a-train/" title="Why Americans love train travel, despite having few trains">No Strangers on a Train</a></h3>
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<time datetime="2009-04-13 18:36:13">April 13, 2009</time> • <span class="location">Athens, <a href="/writing/united-states/1/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a></span>
<p class="intro">We mythologize trains because they harken back to an age of community travel, a real, tangible community of travelers, not just backpackers, but people from all walks of life, people traveling near and far together in a shared space that isn't locked down like an airplane and isn't isolated like a car; it's a shared travel experience and there are precious few of those left in our world. <a class="permalink" href="/2009/apr/13/strangers-on-a-train/" title="No Strangers on a Train">Read it »</a></p>
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<h3><a href="/2008/dec/09/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies/" title="Leondaro Da Vinci comes to Birmingham Alabama, along with some bunnies">Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies</a></h3>
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<time datetime="2008-12-09 17:18:33">December 9, 2008</time> • <span class="location">Birmingham, <a href="/writing/united-states/1/" title="travel writing from the United States">Alabama</a></span>
<p class="intro">A few pages from Leonardo Da Vinci's notebooks make a rare trip outside Italy, to Birmingham, AL, of all places. But the Birmingham Museum of Art is home to far more alarming works of art, works which depict the eventual, inevitable, bunny takeover, after which all the elements of our reality will be replaced by bunnies. Seriously. You heard it here first. <a class="permalink" href="/2008/dec/09/leonardo-da-vinci-and-codex-bunnies/" title="Leonardo Da Vinci and the Codex on Bunnies">Read it »</a></p>
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<h3><a href="/2008/oct/31/elkmont-and-great-smoky-mountains/" title="Travels in the the Smoky Mountains, home of the lost Elkmont Railroad">Elkmont and the Great Smoky Mountains</a></h3>
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<time datetime="2008-10-31 14:16:13">October 31, 2008</time> • <span class="location">Great Smoky Mountains, <a href="/writing/united-states/1/" title="travel writing from the United States">Tennessee</a></span>
<p class="intro">Pigeon Forge is Myrtle Beach in the mountains. Redneck weddings cascade straight out of the chapel and into the mini golf reception area. Pigeon Forge is everything that's wrong with America. But we aren't here for Pigeon Forge, it just happens to have a free condo we're staying in. We're here for the mountains. Smoky Mountain National Park is just a few miles up the road. <a class="permalink" href="/2008/oct/31/elkmont-and-great-smoky-mountains/" title="Elkmont and the Great Smoky Mountains">Read it »</a></p>
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<h3><a href="/2008/jul/27/rope-swings-and-river-floats/" title="A trip down the Chestatee River">Rope Swings and River Floats</a></h3>
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<time datetime="2008-07-27 19:14:49">July 27, 2008</time> • <span class="location">Mountain Cabin, <a href="/writing/united-states/1/" title="travel writing from the United States">Georgia</a></span>
<p class="intro">Two weekends ago we went up to the mountains, just outside of Dahlonega GA, and floated the Chestatee River using inner tubes, various pool toys and one super-cool inflatable seahorse. Unfortunately, proving one of my travel mottos -- you can never go back -- a return trip proved disastrous. <a class="permalink" href="/2008/jul/27/rope-swings-and-river-floats/" title="Rope Swings and River Floats">Read it »</a></p>
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