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Earth is like a Big Garage
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Continue reading →: Earth is like a Big GarageI’m currently at Cholla Campground, Tonto National Forest—billed as one of the largest solar-powered campgrounds in the United States. Since they don’t have electricity at the campsites, I’m not exactly sure what that means. All the bathroom lights are solar powered, I guess, and they have hot showers. But the…
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65 Nights in a Camper: The Truth About Small Spaces
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Continue reading →: 65 Nights in a Camper: The Truth About Small SpacesI’m coming up on 65 consecutive nights in the camper, and while I always leave my return open-ended, it seems like 60 days or so is the point each year where I start thinking about heading home. I miss seeing my friends, of course, and I miss the relative comfort…
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We the People, but they the People too
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Continue reading →: We the People, but they the People tooOut of about 150 posts here in the last 2+ years, I’ve written about politics around 5 times, and I really don’t want this to become a primary space for that, if only for my own sanity, but also because I want readers to be able to take a break…
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Big Sur and Death Valley, Nature’s Best Exfoliant
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Continue reading →: Big Sur and Death Valley, Nature’s Best ExfoliantHow do you catch up with documenting your travels and other experiences after you’ve taken a two week break from writing and life has gone on and therefore many experiences have come and gone is a question I’m not going to try to answer here but instead illustrate through a…
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Reflecting on My Most Popular Blog Posts
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Continue reading →: Reflecting on My Most Popular Blog PostsI did one of these about a year ago, where I checked out my blog stats and looked back on the most popular blog posts. It’s interesting to me to see what makes this list, versus my own personal favorites. The most popular post of all time continues to be…
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Is this DEI?
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Continue reading →: Is this DEI?Every February I get a little nervous about work. For the past five years or so at the University of Minnesota, I’ve written a recurring Black History Month feature we call “Where It Starts.” In the series, I interview a mix of Black students/alums/faculty about one or more of a…
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Burrito Mondays, Taco Tuesdays
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Continue reading →: Burrito Mondays, Taco TuesdaysTonight I stopped at a taco shop that caught my eye with a “$1.59 tacos” sign, but the deal was for Tuesdays, so I got a burrito. I asked the taco lady if Tuesdays were really busy, and she said yes, but Mondays are actually busier, because Monday they prep…
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It’s been a long week, but it’s finally Dunderday
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Continue reading →: It’s been a long week, but it’s finally DunderdayI’ve always said that there is no better way to deal with a challenge or a problem that you’re having than to get into a vehicle and drive away from it. There are other ways, of course. Airplanes, for example, will take you away from your problems much more rapidly.…
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Exploring Highway 1: A Scenic Journey Along California’s Coast
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Continue reading →: Exploring Highway 1: A Scenic Journey Along California’s CoastAs it was nearing dusk, I drove 20 miles north from San Simeon SP on Highway 1 as it leisurely winds through the hillsides with views of the pacific cliffs, exposed bare clay in some places where they’re too steep for vegetation, and covered in green where the cliffs can…
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Reflections from Pismo Beach: Surfers and Sweetarts
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Continue reading →: Reflections from Pismo Beach: Surfers and SweetartsI was squatting down on the beach searching for jelly bean stones when I looked up to see a very attractive woman walking toward me. I struggled to stand up, my bad knee causing me to rise unevenly, and I said to myself, “try to look cool, try to look…
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Exploring Sedona’s Vortex Energy
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Continue reading →: Exploring Sedona’s Vortex EnergyI have become one of the beachcombers, we human scavengers among the gulls and other shorebirds. Each day I walk from my campsite the half mile to the beach, then shuffle through the sand with my head down. We search for treasures among the washed up stones and scurry like…
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When I travel I get chatty
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Continue reading →: When I travel I get chattyI arrived at California’s San Simeon State Park on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 12, after a brief stay in the southernmost part of Sequoia National Forest, which, as far as I could see, had no sequoia trees (generally they are hard to miss). They must be farther north. San Simeon SP…
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Welcome to Kantexihoma, land of disenchantment
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Continue reading →: Welcome to Kantexihoma, land of disenchantmentI have seen the London Bridge in person, but I have never been to London. How, you ask? A little more than a year ago I would have asked the same question, but that was before I found out that in 1968 some lunatic (visionary?) purchased the 930 foot bridge—originally…
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Wish you were here + bonus poem (poemus)
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Continue reading →: Wish you were here + bonus poem (poemus)I’m leaving soon on another camperland adventure, towing my little R-pod trailer to Big Sur, California, where I’ll work from home for a good part of the remaining winter. Twenty years or so ago I was there with my tent, and I recall it as one of the most beautiful…
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Potato Don’t Count
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Continue reading →: Potato Don’t CountInventions I’ll never create, businesses I’ll never start, and titles of novels I’ll never write. Sometimes I think of inventions I’ll never create, businesses that I’ll never start, and titles of novels I’ll never write. I like to think of myself as the proverbial “idea man,” where I come up…
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Some Hard-hitting Reporting
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Continue reading →: Some Hard-hitting ReportingI’m still up in northern Minnesota after two weeks of working from a campsite, on my way back this weekend. My lawn needed mowing when I left, and I know of no one who might have mowed it. And with the temps falling, it’s time to winterize my camper (until…
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Exploring Northern Minnesota’s Hogback Lake: A Camping Adventure
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Continue reading →: Exploring Northern Minnesota’s Hogback Lake: A Camping AdventureI took to the northwoods last weekend, along with thousands, maybe tens of thousands of other Minnesotans. Along the North Shore near the popular and photogenic bear and bean lakes—which, since Instagram, seem to have more traffic than New York City—cars lined up waiting for a turn on the six…
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Fall Preparations
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Continue reading →: Fall PreparationsI planted a couple dozen tulip bulbs today, so that they can be the first things up in the spring and the rabbits can eat them before they bloom, the bastards. When planting tulip bulbs, I kind of feel that quote from Martin Luther, who when asked what he would…
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Hi. I’m Adam Overland, a writer based in Minneapolis. These are the meanderings of my muddled mind. I’ve written humor columns for various print publications, so naturally that’s dead and here I am, waiting for the last gasp.
