Last week, I took a two-night, two-day trip with my boyfriend to southeastern Illinois’s Shawnee National Forest. We wanted to hike and possibly car camp, but because of the record heat and because we were traveling with his dog Bo,…
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Weekend Trip to Shawnee National Forest’s Garden of the Gods
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The “Backpacking Ethos” in Steinbeck’s Travels with Charley?
John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row is one of my favorite novels to read and teach. I always mean to read more Steinbeck, so I decided to let my interests in memoir and travel writing guide my first selection of the summer.…
The Ambulant Scholar 